Gridded livestock density database and spatial trends for Kazakhstan

We developed gridded livestock (horses and small ruminants, i.e., sheep & goats) density maps at high-resolution (1 km) for Kazakhstan during 2000-2019 using vegetation proxies, climatic, socioeconomic, topographic, and proximity forcing variables. The developed livestock maps can be used in spatially explicit research, such as quantifying grass-livestock balance, water consumption by animal husbandry, methane emissions, risk of zoonotic diseases, and other environmental impact assessments. The repository has three folders with small ruminants, horses, and sample code and data in separate folders. Each file is saved in GeoTiff format with 1-km spatial resolution and an Albers equal-area conic projection. Each file is saved with an acronym of ‘sr’ for small ruminants (Sheep & goat) and ‘hr’ for horses, followed by an underscore and a year. Missing data are represented by “No data.”