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 Southampton, the 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 Organization, ESRC, Norad 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 Foundation, USAID 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.