population {geodata}

population density

Description

Download population density data.

Source: Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v4. Documentation:

http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/gpw-v4/documentation

Usage

population(year, res, path, ...)

Arguments

year

numeric. One of 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020

res

numeric. Valid resolutions are 10, 5, 2.5, and 0.5 (minutes of a degree)

path

character. Path for storing the downloaded data. See geodata_path

...

additional arguments passed to download.file

Value

SpatRaster

References

Center for International Earth Science Information Network - CIESIN - Columbia University. 2018. Gridded Population of the World, Version 4 (GPWv4): Population Density, Revision 11. Palisades, NY: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). doi:10.7927/H49C6VHW. Accessed 6 July 2021.

Examples

# download may take > 5s
pop <- population(2020, 10, path=tempdir())