Researchers assessed the five most widely used global population datasets that map the planet into evenly spaced ... as current estimates suggest over 40 per cent of the world's 8.2 billion people ...

The high resolution population density maps will show an estimate of the number of people living within 30 ... data science and compute power with the world while protecting privacy.

Half of the global population already lives in cities, and by 2050 two-thirds of the world's people are expected to live in urban areas. But in cities two of the most pressing problems facing the ...