Data to support downscaling regional economic activity

This is a collection of open datasets that provide indicators, covariates and validation of downscaled (global) regional economic activity, processed to Parquet format for ease of access directly on cloud object storage.

See the global-spatial-economics-datasets-public.csv table for dataset names, sources and brief description.

Accessing Data

Data access should be available through the Source Data Proxy.

But in practice data access may also work well directly from AWS S3. List the contents at the top level of this repository:

If you don't have the AWS CLI, follow the getting started guide

Alternatively, the data is currently available through this bucket:

s3://gri-datapkg/spatial-economics/v0.1.0/

Citation

Schlosser, I., & Russell, T. (2025). Data to support downscaling regional economic activity (0.1.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17235586

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

References

• International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), 2024. Global Spatially-Disaggregated Crop Production Statistics Data for 2020 Version 1.0. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/SWPENT
• Ru, Y., Blankespoor, B., Wood-Sichra, U., Thomas, T.S., You, L., Kalvelagen, E., 2023. Estimating local agricultural gross domestic product (AgGDP) across the world. Earth System Science Data 15, 1357-1387. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1357-2023
• Maus, V., Giljum, S., Gutschlhofer, J., Da Silva, D.M., Probst, M., Gass, S.L.B., Luckeneder, S., Lieber, M., McCallum, I., 2020. A global-scale data set of mining areas. Sci Data 7, 289. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00624-w
• Global Integrated Power Tracker, Global Energy Monitor, September 2024 release. Available at: https://globalenergymonitor.org/projects/global-integrated-power-tracker/
• Kummu, M., Kosonen, M. & Masoumzadeh Sayyar, S. 2025. Downscaled gridded global dataset for gross domestic product (GDP) per capita PPP over 1990–2022. Scientific Data 12: 178. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-04487-x
• Copernicus Global Dynamic Land Cover. European Union's Copernicus Land Monitoring Service information. https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/global-dynamic-land-cover
• Schiavina, M., Melchiorri, M., Pesaresi, M., Politis, P., Carneiro Freire, S.M., Maffenini, L., Florio, P., Ehrlich, D., Goch, K., Carioli, A., Uhl, J., Tommasi, P. and Kemper, T., GHSL Data Package 2023, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2023, ISBN 978-92-68-02341-9, doi:10.2760/098587, JRC133256.
• Overture Maps Foundation. 2024. Overture Maps Places v2024-10-23.0 Available at: overturemaps.org
• Schlosser, I., Russell, T. 2025 DOSE-WDI v0.3