Number of deaths from Plasmodium falciparum during a defined year
Plasmodium falciparum malaria death count: modelled number of malaria-attributable deaths in a given year, per 5×5 km pixel.
This layer map provides estimates of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria death count, the modelled number of malaria-attributable deaths in a given year per pixel. To produce these estimates, we apply geostatistical models to response datasets consisting of case and mortality 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 absolute death counts per pixel, not a rate.
Band composition is a property of the release rather than of the dataset. Band 1
is the data band in every release, but the confidence-interval bands are not
guaranteed to be present in all of them. The table above describes the current
multi-band 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.
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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