Global Human Settlement Layer
European Commission JRC
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial
- Yes
- Format
- GeoTIFF, Several, CSV
- Coverage
- Global
- Projection
- ESRI:54009
- Last updated
- Added to findgis 27 Oct 2026 · Update frequency Irregular
Tags
Built-up area, population, and settlement grids.
Source and attribution
- Publisher
- European Commission JRC
- License
- Attribution
- Commercial use
- Yes
- Attribution required
- Yes
- Modification allowed
- Yes
- Redistribution allowed
- Yes
- Share-alike
- No
- Region
- Global
- Type
- Raster
- Download
- UCDB R2024A V1.2 (zip, 277 MB)Population 2020 at 1 km (GeoTIFF zip, 322 MB)Built-up surface 2020, 1 km Mollweide (GeoTIFF zip, 153 MB)Settlement model 2020 at 1 km (V2-0) (GeoTIFF zip, 35.9 MB)
- Extent
- -180-9018090West, south, east, north. Approximate region extent.
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