To provide urban center level estimates of the proportion of population that has convenient access to public transportation.

To provide national and subnational estimates of SDG indicator 9.1.1, which measures the proportion of the rural population who live within 2 kilometers of an all-season road.

To provide urban center level estimates of the average share of the built-up area of cities that is open space for public use for all.

To provide a data set that allows users to understand how slow-onset climate change impacts on water availability and crop productivity, coupled with sea-level rise and storm surge, may affect the future population distribution and climate-related internal migration in low to middle income countries.

To provide a polygon representation of urban areas with city or agglomeration name and time series population estimates.

To provide populated place (point) data with consistent population estimates.

To permit cartographic display of countries and territories that exactly match the GRUMPv1 population surfaces

To provide populated place (point) data with consistent population estimates.

To permit cartographic display of coastlines that exactly match the GRUMPv1 population surfaces.