India Population - Pincode Level Data

[Sarabjeet Matharu]

Hi

I'm looking for population data by geography, ideally at the pincode level. Is this data readily available, perhaps through census or similar sources?

Please let me know if such data is available at whatever granularity possible. 

Thanks, 

Sarabjeet

[Sarabjeet Matharu]

Tehsil level population information is available from the 2011 census. 

However, are there more recent data sources from which this information can be compiled? 

Regards, 

Sarabjeet

[Soumya Ranjan]

Facebook's HRSL data is available at 30m resolution. You can aggregate at the Pincode level if you have the boundaries.

Regards,

Soumya

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[Sarabjeet Matharu]

Hi Soumya, 

Thanks for sharing. Great resource to go through !

Regards, 

Sarabjeet

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[Ujaval Gandhi]

The HRSL data is a great resource, but is not yet available for India. [see downloads]

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[Rajesvari Parasa]

Hi, leaving this here, some gridded population datasets I have recently come across. I have mostly used Worldpop for India as estimates are available at 100m for 2020. Hope it helps. 

Dataset Name	Spatial Resolution	Available for	Link	Access
Gridded Population of the World (GPW), v4	1 km	2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, and 2020.	https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/gpw-v4	Open access (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)
Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project (GRUMP), v1	1 km	1990, 1995, and 2000.	https://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/data/collection/grump-v1	Open access (non-commercial use)
Global Human Settlement Layer- POPULATION (GHS-POP)	250 m and 1 km	1975, 1990, 2000, and 2015.	https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ghs_pop2019.php	Open access (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License)
World Population Estimate (WPE)	150 m in 2016 and 250 m in earlier years	2013, 2015, and 2016.	https://livingatlas.arcgis.com/en/browse/#d=2&q=World%20Population%20Estimate	Commercial (free for those with named user accounts in ArcGIS organizations).
High Resolution Settlement Layer (HRSL)	30 m	2015	https://data.humdata.org/dataset/highresolutionpopulationdensitymaps	Open access.
LandScan	1 km	Annual datasets since 1998.	https://landscan.ornl.gov/	Open access for academic research, humanitarian purposes, and for agencies or staff of the US government and mission partners. Commercial license available for other entities.
WorldPop	100 m	Every year from 2000-2020.	https://www.worldpop.org/	Open access.

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[Sarabjeet Matharu]

Hi

Thanks for sharing. 

The HSRL data led me to this resource : https://data.humdata.org/dataset/worldpop-population-counts-for-india.  

This has population data for India from 2000-2020. Not sure if this is the HSRL data, but looked like it. 

Regards, 

Sarabjeet

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[atulr...@gmail.com]

Is there any documentation available for this or any source for reference?

[Robin Zachariah]

Information on Facebook’s Population Density Maps shared on Humanitarian Data Exchange is available here, along with the methodology. 

Best, 

Robin

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[Soumya Ranjan]

Thanks for the link, Ujaval.

The data is clubbed with other South East Asain nations and made available by the facebook team at humdata (I am not sure why the same doesn't reflect in the AWS datastore). 

[see the links link1, link2, link3, link4]. 

Last I checked, it was not available for the north-eastern states of India.

- Soumya

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