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This resource is published by open spatial demographic data and research organization called WorldPop. This resource represents the population count, 1 km spatial resolution layers available to download from the year 2000 to 2020. The dataset is called as WorldPop Unconstrained Global Mosaics. The encoded cell value represents the total number of people in that particular grid cell.

Usage

get_worldpop(years = 2000)

Arguments

years

A numeric vector indicating the years for which to make the resource available.

Value

A function that returns an sf footprint object.

Details

It may be required to increase the timeout option to successfully download theses WorldPop layers from their source location via e.g. options(timeout = 600).