LandScan 2014 Global Population Database Released by East View


East View is pleased to announce the worldwide release of the LandScan 2014 Global Population Database. LandScan is developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory for the United States Department of Defense. Annually updated since the year 2000, this represents the 16^th version of LandScan. This award-winning database provides the ambient population distribution at a high resolution of one square kilometer covering all inhabited land mass on Earth. For this new release, very special attention was given to Ukraine and the Middle East where ongoing conflict has presented significant challenges for calculating the population distribution values. East View is the exclusive worldwide distributor of LandScan, fulfilling the population data needs of individual researchers, academic institutions, government agencies, humanitarian organizations and businesses around the world. www.eastview.com