To provide tabular data on environmental conditions (elevations, climate, coastal) in which people reside.

To provide estimates of urban and rural populations and land areas in the low elevation coastal zone.

To make the acquisition, comparison and analysis of sustainability indicators easier by compiling them in a single database, incorporating multiple country codes, and condensing the indicator descriptions into short methodological summaries in an accompanying data dictionary.

To preserve access to the original set of socioeconomic and natural resource scenarios used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To provide a time series of raster data on population to facilitate data integration.

To provide a time series of raster data on population projected to the year 2015 to facilitate data integration.

To provide a time series of raster data on population projected to the year 2015 to facilitate data integration.

To provide a time series of raster data on population density to facilitate data integration.

To provide data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES B2 marker scenario.

To provide data on country-level population and downscaled projections based on the SRES A1, B1, and A2 marker scenarios.

To provide tabular data on environmental conditions (elevations, climate, coastal) in which people reside.