Solomon_Islands_Population_Grid_2023

Population Raster Solomon Islands 2023

Data Input: Settlement footprint from Solomon Islands 2018 Household Listing combined with Open Street Map Building footprints from https://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania/solomon-islands.html

Population allocated proportionally using 2019 census population counts at ward level.

Year Population Growth Rate calculated from Population Projections available at https://stats.pacificdata.org/vis?tm=population&pg=0&snb=50&df[ds]=ds%3ASPC2&df[id]=DF_POP_DENSITY&df[ag]=SPC&df[vs]=1.0 to update population to

The human settlement footprint with population allocated has been converted into a ~100 m resolution raster.

Population projection carried out with the simplifying assumption that national rates apply evenly (without other subnational input data available, it is seen as appropriate for this exercise)