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

To provide a time series of raster population data for ntegration with other data sets.

To preserve access to the original population data used by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) and other related research.

To provide a global data set of point locations and attributes describing nuclear power plants and reactors.

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

To provide a cumulative measure of human modification of terrestrial lands based on modeling the physical extents of 13 anthropogenic stressors and their estimated impacts using spatially-explicit global data sets.

To provide high-resolution population and urban classification data for India for 2011.

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

To provide a raster representation of urban areas (or urban mask) for use with GRUMP population grids or other data sets.

To provide data that can be used in independent spatial statistical analyses, construction of development-related indices, or in combination with remote sensing data in order to identify spatio-temporal patterns and/or changes in different demographic categories, such as male, female, urban, rural, level of education, etc.

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

To provide a time series of raster population density data for data integration.

To provide estimates of total, urban and rural populations and land areas in proximity to nuclear power plants.

To provide spatially-explicit data that relatively rank global land suitability referred to as Development Potential Indices (DPIs) for 13 sectors related to renewable energy, fossil fuels, mining and agriculture as an aid to conservation priority setting.

To provide a vector (point) version of the input administrative units used in GPWv4 with population estimates, densities, 2010 basic demographic characteristics, and administrative name, area, and data context for use in data integration.

To provide estimates of population counts by age and sex for the year 2010, consistent with national censuses and population registers, as raster data to facilitate data integration.

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 estimates of population density for the years 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020, based on counts consistent with national censuses and population registers with respect to relative spatial distribution, but adjusted to match United Nations country totals.

To provide land area data for use with GRUMPv1 population and urban data as well as a quantitative measure of resolution of the input spatial units for GRUMPv1.