Modelled gridded population estimates Kasaï-Oriental Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo version 4.2

This dataset consists of gridded population estimates for the Kasaï-Oriental province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It includes gridded population counts with model uncertainty measures and breakdowns in 40 age-sex groups at a spatial resolution of 3 arc-seconds, approximately 100-metre grid cells. The estimates are produced in a Bayesian hierarchical modelling framework by combining population and building count data collected in a microcensus survey, gridded building counts from settlement extent data, and other gridded geospatial covariates. The model estimates and predicts population and building counts based on the microcensus survey data using gridded settlement extent data as an essential model covariate. Although this method incorporates uncertainty in the population and building input data, other unaccounted sources of uncertainty are most likely present. These model-based population estimates can be considered as most accurately representing the year 2024. This time period corresponds to inputs used for Kasaï-Oriental.