Written by Alyson Marks

“If we want to help people, we need to know where they are. If we want accurate maps, we can’t rely on our best guess.” – Vince Seaman of the Gates Foundation during his keynote address on the importance of gridded population data

POPGRID released a new open access journal article in the journal Earth System Science Data entitled "The spatial allocation of population: a review of large-scale gridded population data products and their fitness for use.”