GHS-UCDB R2024A - GHS Urban Centre Database 2025

This dataset contains statistics on urban centres based on data from the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) produced at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, unit E.1 (Disaster Risk Management). This release is based on the GHSL Data Package 2023, the Degree of Urbanisation to delineate spatial entities, and geospatial data integration from a variety of open source datasets to characterise them. The result is the most complete information system on cities to date with data for 11,422 quality-controlled urban centres across 15 thematic domains, 471 indicators, and 2600 attributes. The UCDB has two data streams, one based on a fixed delineation of urban centres in 2025, and a second version based on multi-temporal delineation of urban centres, traceable over time.
The UCDB integrates data from Copernicus Services (including Emergency, Land Monitoring, Marine and Climate), peer-reviewed datasets (i.e. from the scientific literature), and institutional information systems (i.e. from the United Nations).