This database identifies, delimits and names human settlements in the 26 borrowing member countries of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) — Argentina, the Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela — for ten epochs between 1975 and 2020, at five-year intervals. Settlements are derived by applying the first step of the Degree of Urbanisation (DEGURBA), the harmonised methodology developed by the European Commission, FAO, UN-Habitat, ILO, OECD and the World Bank to classify territory along an urban–rural continuum for international comparisons (European Union/FAO/UN-Habitat/OECD/World Bank, 2021). Each record is a settlement polygon made up of contiguous populated grid cells. It reports population and area by cell type (urban centre, urban cluster and rural),...
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