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The significant improvements are highlighted below, and for more detailed information see the <a title=\"Download WPE Methodology White Paper\" href=\"https:\/\/esri.box.com\/s\/623t9yxoce5fuxdv0q3rvy3cwbz9g8ie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Methodology White Paper<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A confidence score (1 = most, to 5 = least) surface is now available. This score accounts for the reliability, age, and method of the population estimates, the impact of raster resampling during the modeling process, and the ratio of the population to the size of reporting units. See <a title=\"WPE Confidence Layer ArcGIS Online Item\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=4290a18955d34099b5171d0ef28a9ad9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Population Estimate Confidence 2016<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101784\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101784\" style=\"width: 765px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WPE_Conf_20162.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101784\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WPE_Conf_20162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"765\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Within Europe and North Africa, confidence in population estimate varies tremendously. This is based on age of census or estimate, size of available enumeration units, the quality of the census, etc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The geoprocessing model used to create the surfaces was restructured to eliminate statistical artifacts which affected the model\u2019s ability to determine an appropriate threshold for human settlement, especially in coastal areas. To improve upon this previous version we switched to a Top of Atmosphere (TOA) corrected Landsat8 panchromatic dataset. TOA effectively normalizes statistics between scenes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are also pleased to include that Esri participates in the <a title=\"POPGRID Data Collective Website, Hosted by CIESIN\" href=\"http:\/\/www.popgrid.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">POPGRID Data Collaborative<\/a>, which is a consortium of those who produce global and national gridded population estimates and redistributions. POPGRID seeks to facilitate collaboration among data producers and\u00a0inform users about the differences in purpose and utility of existing gridded population datasets.<\/p>\n<p>The 2016 World Population Estimate layers\u00a0are found in the ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World.<\/p>\n<p>Supporting Content:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ol>\n<li><a title=\"Download WPE Methodology White Paper\" href=\"https:\/\/esri.box.com\/s\/ghgbyvy86jkx90uijmo9j7bmxosbt10f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2016 Methodology White Paper<\/a>\u00a0that provides\u00a0detailed documentation describing the nature of the WPE, how it is produced, and recommendations for successful use.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"ArcGIS Online Web Map containing the sources layer for the WPE Layers\" href=\"https:\/\/www.arcgis.com\/home\/item.html?id=9731b5e738334e529026b4101c46f872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World Population Estimate 2016 Sources Web Map<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_101783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-101783\" style=\"width: 418px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WPE_2016_Source_Example1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-101783\" src=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2018\/03\/WPE_2016_Source_Example1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"449\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-101783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This example shows the kind of information available for every country.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<ol>\n<li><a title=\"WE ARE EVERYWHERE Story Map\" href=\"http:\/\/arcg.is\/1Tv9RsB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We are Everywhere<\/a> story map that introduces the WPE and possibilities for gridded population data.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n"}],"authors":[{"ID":4351,"user_firstname":"Charlie","user_lastname":"Frye","nickname":"Charlie Frye","user_nicename":"cfrye","display_name":"Charlie Frye","user_email":"cfrye@esri.com","user_url":"","user_registered":"2018-03-02 00:15:58","user_description":"I am the Chief Cartographer at Esri and work on the Living Atlas Team. 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