Acknowledgements

The success of WorldPop is reliant upon collaborators, organizations, governmental inputs and funders from around the World, of which we are exceptionally grateful.

WorldPop is supported by grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Prof Tatem also acknowledges funding support from the RAPIDD program of the Science & Technology Directorate, Department of Homeland Security, and the Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health. Dr Linard is supported by the Belgian Science Foundation and works at the Biological control and Spatial Ecology Lab. (abbreviated as LUBIES, Lutte Biologique et Ecologie Spatiale), which is part of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles.

The poverty mapping work is undertaken in collaboration with the University of Southamptonthe World Bank, the University of Oxford and the Flowminder Foundation and is supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s Financial Services for the Poor team (Contracts #21989 and CPT003743).

The births and pregnancies mapping work is undertaken in collaboration with ICS Integrare and the University of Southampton, with the financial support of UNFPA, the World Health OrganizationESRCNorad and Wellcome Trust.

Urban change mapping work is supported through funding from the World Bank and is undertaken in collaboration with researchers from the University of Wisconsin. Additional support is provided by Google and BELSPO.

The demographics mapping work is undertaken in collaboration with the Bill and Melinda Gates FoundationUSAID and the UN Foundation.

The population movements work is supported by funding from the Clinton Health Access Initiative, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Wellcome Trust and ESRC, as well as funds from the Rockefeller Foundation to Flowminder.

WorldPop also acknowledges computing support from Microsoft Research and previous funding from the Fondation Wiener-Anspach.

GRID3

GRID3

WorldPop is a core partner of the Geo-referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3) project

AfriPop, AsiaPop and AmeriPop

WorldPop brings together the AfriPop, AsiaPop and AmeriPop projects

Malaria Atlas

WorldPop is a partner of the Malaria Atlas Project

Digital Humanitarian Network

WorldPop is an associate partner of the Digital Humanitarian Network

Global Land Program

WorldPop is a partner of the Global Land Program

Global Atlas of Helminth Infections

WorldPop is an associate partner of the Global Atlas of Helminth Infections

Flowminder Foundation

WorldPop is an associate partner of the Flowminder Foundation

POPGRID

WorldPop is a member of the POPGRID data collaborative

Humanitarian Data Exchange

WorldPop is a partner organization of the Humanitarian Data Exchange

Google Earth Engine

WorldPop partners with Google Earth Engine’ to make its data widely available

Human Planet Initiative

WorldPop is a member of the Human Planet Initiative

Global Earth Observation

Global Earth Observation

WorldPop datasets are contributed to the Global Earth Observation Sistema