Weighing the world's over 600 million buildings reveals stark global disparities and material-efficient urbanization pathways

This dataset contains the city-level building material stock estimates used in the manuscript entitled "Weighing the world’s over 600 million buildings reveals stark global disparities and material-efficient urbanization pathways." It includes:- Building weight per capita by latitude - Building-scale data for the top 2000+ global cities - Summary statistics aggregated by built-up boundaries The data were generated using geospatial and statistical methods described in the manuscript. Please refer to the publication for methodological details and guidance on data interpretation and reuse.