Table 3 Country scale technical validation between actual and simulated population in (a) Afghanistan, (b) China, (c) India, (d) Pakistan.

From: Gridded Population Structure Datasets for the Indus River Basin under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 2020–2100

Countries

Relative Error (%)

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

a) Afghanistan

0.86

1.40

2.18

1.85

1.54

1.0

0.24

2.68

b) China

0.10

0.10

0.10

0.13

0.13

0.13

0.15

0.06

c) India

0.10

0.02

0.30

0.20

0.10

0.13

0.30

0.50

d) Pakistan

1.31

2.82

3.82

4.88

5.67

4.67

3.28

2.68