To provide areas in the coastal zone of West Africa that may be particularly exposed to climate stressors owing to high population growth rates.

To provide areas in West Africa that may be particularly exposed to climate stressors owing to future high population growth.

To provide areas in the coastal zone of West Africa that may be particularly exposed to climate stressors owing to high population density.

To provide maternal education levels and poverty in West Africa.

To provide poverty levels in the coastal zone of West Africa.

To provide areas of forest cover loss in the coastal zone of West Africa.

To provide a measure of economic activity in the coastal zone of West Africa based on nighttime lights.

To provide crop production for five higher-value export crops in West Africa to aid in estimating production value.

To assess relative levels of economic activity in the coastal zone of West Africa.

To measure human security and sensitivity of populations to climate stressors in the coastal zone of West Africa.

To provide estimates of population density for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020, based on counts consistent with national censuses and population registers with respect to relative spatial distribution, but adjusted to match United Nations country totals.

To provide estimates of population density for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020, based on counts consistent with national censuses and population registers, as raster data to facilitate data integration.

To provide estimates of population counts by age and sex for the year 2010, consistent with national censuses and population registers, as raster data to facilitate data integration.

To provide estimates of population count for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020, consistent with national censuses and population registers, as raster data to facilitate data integration.

To provide context for the population count and density rasters, and explicit information on the spatial precision of the input boundary data.

To provide a raster representation of nation-states in GPWv4 for use in aggregating population data.

To provide estimates of population count for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020, consistent with national censuses and population registers with respect to relative spatial distribution, but adjusted to match United Nations country totals.

To provide pixel-level land and water surface area estimates.

To provide a continuous surface of NO2 concentrations for health and environmental research.

To provide back-cast population count estimates at 30 arc-second (~1 km) resolution.