Data for replicating The Global Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Nature, History, and the Role of Trade (forthcoming 2018; with Vernon Henderson, Tim Squires and David N. Weil) Quarterly Journal of Economics We explore the role...

The High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL) provides estimates of human population distribution at a resolution of 1 arc-second (approximately 30m) for the year 2015. The population estimates are based on recent census data and high-...

The MTF survey is a global baseline survey on household access to electricity and clean cooking, which goes beyond the binary approach to look at access as a spectrum of service levels experienced by households. Resources included are...

This dataset contains solar rooftop potential data (suitable rooftop area, installable capacity, estimated yearly electricity generation, and building type ) at individual building structure level for a sample area of interest in...

The goal of the South West Indian Ocean Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (SWIO RAFI) is to improve the resiliency and capacity of the island states through the creation of disaster risk financing strategies. A key component of...

The Distrubuted Renewable Energy (DRE) Atlas is an open-access, publicly accessible, web-based, and interactive platform providing detailed information on settlements across 58 countries. This platform enables users to easily navigate...

This dataset collected by SARA survey and GoSL contains the location (point) of health facilities in Somaliland.

Trends Above Ground Biomass Production IAP from 2009-2017 from FAO WaPOR

Developed by SOLARGIS (https://solargis.com) and provided by the Global Solar Atlas (GSA), this data resource contains air temperature at 2m above ground level in °C covering the globe. Data is provided in a geographic spatial reference...

This is the training dataset for power tower deep learning model development. The dataset contains 50cm resolution Mapbox image tiles (Maxar imagery) as well as the power tower location presence in the imagery as geojson file. Both the...

Population density per pixel at 100 metre resolution. WorldPop provides estimates of numbers of people residing in each 100x100m grid cell for every low and middle income country. Through ingegrating cencus, survey, satellite and GIS...

Combination of the following data sources: 1) ECREEE transmission network for West Africa, online at ECOWREX 2) Data collected as input to the geospatial least-cost planning for universal electricity access by 2030 developed as part of...

The Power Systems Planning Group, embedded in the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP), has created the Electricity Planning Model (EPM) as a least-cost planning framework. EPM minimizes the costs of expanding and...

The database is subject to the IEA’s Terms and Conditions, available at https://www.iea.org/terms. Quarterly Coal Statistics provide rapid, accurate and detailed statistics on production and trade of coal mainly in, but not limited to,...

Data for power plants in Mozambique with total installed generating capacity 10 mw from the Platts World Electric Power Plants Database (WEPP 2006).

Data for power plants in Niger with total installed generating capacity 10 mw from the Platts World Electric Power Plants Database (WEPP 2006).

The Global Electrification Platform (GEP) is a multi-phase project led by the World Bank to standardize and simplify the use of geospatial tools for least-cost electrification planning. The GEP provides a high-level overview of the...

The systematic review of published evidence on drivers of and barriers to transitioning populations to modern energy cooking services (MECS) was conducted under the MECS Program, a five-year initiative funded by UK Aid of the Foreign,...

The datasets are sourced from the Ugandan Energy Sector GIS Working Group Open Data Site, developed and maintained by the Ugandan Energy Sector GIS Working Group. The Ugandan Energy Sector GIS Working Group’s mission is to develop a high...

The World Bank working with EED Advisory Limited carried out the Burundi MTF energy survey to provide national-level insights into the status of access to electricity. The survey extended to identify 120 high-potential mini-grids sites...