Number of newly diagnosed Plasmodium falciparum cases per 1,000 population, on a given year
Plasmodium falciparum clinical incidence rate: newly diagnosed cases per 1000 people in a given year.
This layer map provides estimates of the Plasmodium falciparum clinical incidence rate, the number of newly diagnosed cases per 1000 people in a given year. To produce these estimates, we apply geostatistical models to response datasets consisting of case data and routine surveillance reports, and a rich set of geospatial covariates that characterise habitat for Anopheles mosquitos that spread the disease. The maps cover all malaria-endemic countries and are produced annually from year 2000 at a 5×5 km resolution.
Values are a rate expressed as cases per 1000 people, not a proportion per person.
Band composition is a property of the release rather than of the dataset. Band 1
is the data band in every release, but the mask and confidence-interval bands are
not guaranteed to be present in all of them. The table above describes the
current releases; for any given version, the item_assets entry in that
version's STAC collection lists exactly the bands it contains, in order, and is
authoritative.
Where the mask band is present, the masking is only applied to South America, where "sparsely populated" is defined as areas that have a modelled estimate of
0 and a population of <5 people per pixel.
Each release is published in its own <version> directory (YYYYMM), with its own STAC catalog and SLD style. The catalog states the version's exact year range.
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