Number of deaths from Plasmodium falciparum per 100,000 population during a defined year
Plasmodium falciparum malaria mortality rate: malaria-attributable deaths per 100,000 population in a given year.
This layer map provides estimates of the Plasmodium falciparum malaria mortality rate, the number of malaria-attributable deaths per 100,000 population in a given year. 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.
The data band expresses a mortality rate as deaths per 100,000 population.
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 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.
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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