To provide spatially explicit, historic, city-level population data from 3700 BC to AD 2000 for improved understanding of contemporary and historical urbanization trends.

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

To provide maternal education levels and poverty in West Africa.

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

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

To provide mangrove forests in the coastal zone of West Africa that may be exposed to the threats of sea level rise and storm surge.

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

To provide a measure of social vulnerability and "defenselessness" in the face of climate stressors in the coastal zone of West Africa.

To provide high and low resolution elevation in forested ecosystems in the coastal zone of West Africa.

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

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

To provide roads linking rural production to urban markets in the coastal zone of West Africa that represent an important exposed infrastructure asset.

To provide areas of higher richness of threatened species which may be at risk from climate stressors in the coastal zone of West Africa.

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

To provide a map of cumulative human pressure on the environment in 1993.

To provide a map of cumulative human pressure on the environment in 2009.

To assist in the country selection process for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) by providing indicators of natural resource protection and child health that complements the governance, social, and economic indicators used by MCC as country selection criteria.