Input data set: National, gridded historical population (ISIMIP3b)

Direct human forcing: national and gridded historical population data for ISIMIP3b covering the periods 1850-1900 and 1901-2021. Estimates are available for total as well as urban and rural population counts.

With version 1.1, we provide gridded population data, that is based on HYDE v3.3 (private communication with K. Klein Goldewijk, to be published). Just like the original dataset we provide total, rural and urban population per grid cell. The data for the historical period is identical to the corresponding ISIMIP3a data, adjusted for the different start and end years.

For the historical period, please refer to the methods desciption in for the ISIMIP3a dataset: https://doi.org/10.48364/ISIMIP.822480.2.

- Klein Goldewijk, K., Beusen, A., Doelman, J. and Stehfest, E.: Anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene – HYDE 3.2, Earth System Science Data, 9(2), 927–953, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-927-2017
- United Nations: World Population Prospects, The 2008 Revision, New York, 2009 → https://population.un.org/wpp
- Perrette, Mahé (2022): ISIpedia country masks. Version 2.4. ISIMIP Repository. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.48364/ISIMIP.635131.1.

With version 1.1, we provide gridded population data, that is based on HYDE v3.3 (private communication with K. Klein Goldewijk, to be published). Just like the original dataset we provide total, rural and urban population per grid cell. The data for the historical period is identical to the corresponding ISIMIP3a data, adjusted for the different start and end years.

For ISIMIP participants, these files are available for download on the DKRZ cluster server using the path /work/bb0820/ISIMIP/ISIMIP3b/InputData/socioeconomic/pop/

For external users, these data can be downloaded from the ISIMIP Repository using the link below.