Data for: Newton et al. 2020 The number and spatial distribution of forest-proximate people globally. One Earth

We include files relevant to the paper Newton et al. 2020 The number and spatial distribution of forest-proximate people globally, published in the journal One Earth. The files included are: 1) Table S1. The number of forest-proximate people in each country of the world. And 2) A description of where to access the publicly-available data of tree cover change and population change.