Population Dynamics Insights provides you with insights about human behavior from maps,
busyness, aggregated search trends, and environmental factors such as weather
and air quality.

Before you can query Population Dynamics Insights data, you must first [sign
up](https://mapsplatform.google.com/lp/geospatial-analytics-signup/)
to get access to the Population Dynamics Insights product. Once your account has been
onboarded, you will be able to **subscribe** to the Population Dynamics Insights dataset for
your target country.

## Prerequisites

To access the Population Dynamics Insights data, you must:

1. [Sign up](https://mapsplatform.google.com/lp/geospatial-analytics-signup/)
   to request access to Population Dynamics Insights.

2. Have a [Google Cloud](https://cloud.google.com/) account.

   If you don't have an account, click the **Get Started** button that links to
   an interactive setup experience in the Cloud console for new
   users:

   [Get Started](https://console.cloud.google.com/google/maps-apis/start?utm_source=Docs_GS_Button&ref=https://developers.google.com/maps/&utm_content=Docs_Central)
3. Enable the BigQuery API. For instructions on enabling BigQuery and for a
   tutorial on using BigQuery, see [Query a public dataset with the Google Cloud console](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/quickstarts/query-public-dataset-console).

4. Enable the [Analytics Hub API](https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/api/analyticshub.googleapis.com/metrics).

5. Ensure that your account has the [Analytics Hub Subscription Owner](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/analytics-hub-grant-roles#ah-subscription-owner-role)
   (`roles/analyticshub.subscriptionOwner`) role to perform subscriber tasks.

6. Ensure that your account has the [BigQuery User](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/access-control#bigquery.user)
   (`roles/bigquery.user`) role to create datasets.

   For more information, see [View and subscribe to
   listings](https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/analytics-hub-view-subscribe-listings).

## Available listings

Population Dynamics embeddings are available in the following countries:
**Australia (AU), Belgium (BE), Brazil (BR), Canada (CA), France (FR), Germany
(DE), India (IN), Italy (IT), Japan (JP), Mexico (MX), Netherlands (NL), Nigeria
(NG), Portugal (PT), Spain (ES), Switzerland (CH), United Kingdom (GB), and
United States (US)**.

Each country has its own listing you must subscribe to.