GHS-DUC R2023A - GHS Degree of Urbanisation Classification, application of the Degree of Urbanisation methodology (stage II) to GADM 4.1 layer, multitemporal (1975-2030)

This dataset contains the Global Degree of Urbanisation Classification of administrative units delineated by the Global ADMinistrative layer version 4.1 (GADM41) according to the application of stage II of the Degree of Urbanisation. The classification is based on the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL) global datasets GHS R2023: the settlement classification GHS-SMOD (GHS-SMOD_GLOBE_R2023A) and population grid GHS-POP (GHS-POP_GLOBE_R2023A) layers for target years 1975-2030 (5 years timestep). This dataset contains a package composed by one excel table, a summary table gathering global summary statistics and by countries and territories in GADM4.1, and 72 CSV files, one per GADM level (from 0 to 5) and epoch (1975-2030), with all administrative units classified according to the Degree of Urbanisation. The spatial delineation of GADM 4.1 administrative units is available at GADM official website (accessible through the link below). Please select the whole world shapefile as six separate layers (one for each level of subdivision/aggregation). The vector layers can be used to join each classification table (csv) with the actual spatial units.