Global and regional human population & demography layers on NRP S3. Seeded with GHS-POP (GHSL R2023A); future home for WorldPop, LandScan, and age-stratified surfaces.
Source: European Commission JRC, GHSL R2023A. License: CC-BY-4.0. Projection: WGS84 (EPSG:4326).
Assets
https://s3-west.nrp-nautilus.io/public-population/raw/ghs-pop-2020-cog.tifhttps://s3-west.nrp-nautilus.io/public-population/ghs-pop-2020/hex/h0=*/data_0.parquetThe hex layer is area-weighted to H3 resolution 9 via exact_extract — one row per h9 cell,
population already summed into the cell. SUM(population) is directly valid (no GROUP BY / dedup).
Validated against the COG pixel-sum: 7.84 billion (2020 world population).
Raster-derived dataset: COG + H3 hex only (no PMTiles). Visualize the COG via titiler.