Total Urban Population

DOI

The World Countries Urban Population Size dataset comprises information on urban population per each country for the period 1500-2000. Data has been gathered and organized in 50-years intervals, using as geographical reference the current list of existing world countries.

Please consult the working paper for a description of the data and sources.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.34894/VFBJND
Metadata Access https://dataverse.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.34894/VFBJND
Provenance
Creator Fink-Jensen, Jonathan
Publisher DataverseNL
Contributor van Leeuwen, Bas
Publication Year 2026
Rights CC0-1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess true
Contact van Leeuwen, Bas
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document; application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
Size 19476; 73691
Version 1.0
Discipline Humanities