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Defining what is and is not urban is complicated, but is crucial to many aspects of development: poverty estimation, disaster mitigation, quantifying environmental degradation, just to name a few. While official definitions of urban are usually left to nectral statistical agencies, there is need for a consistent, quantitative, apolitical definition of urban. This data package attempts to do that by estimating urban in three different ways: using nighttime lights, using gridded population data, and a combination of gridded population data and travel time. Within these defintions, a number of econometric, demographic, and morphological metrics are calculated, all of which are based on open source data and analytics.

Liberia Urban Extents
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Liberia Urban Metrics
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