Population Settlements in Ghana

This dataset contains all population settlements in Ghana used in this study, based on the Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3) and High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL) data. Columns and their unit are: 1) type (BUA, SSA, or hamlet), 2) \"Area_km2\" [km^2], 3) \"Region\", 4) \"District\", 5) \"Pop2020\" as absolute population numbers in 2020, 6) \"PopDen_2020\" as population density in 2020, 7) \"Num_hosp\" for number of hospitals located in the settlement, 8) \"Dist2Grid_mtr\" as distance to the electricity grid [mtr], 9) \"Dist2Light_mtr\" as distance to a light source [mtr], 10) \"Households\" as total number of households located in the settlement. All georeferenced files have the projected coordinate system EPSG:32630.