WorldPop Nigeria Population Counts 2020
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Gridded population count raster for Nigeria at ~100m (3 arc-second) resolution, 2020, in GeoTIFF, UN-adjusted and constrained to building footprints. Single-file download ~58.67 MB from WorldPop (University of Southampton), CC BY 4.0.
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- 🇳🇬 Nigeria
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- 24 Jun 2026
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