Tomorrow we’re launching WorldPop’s new global gridded population datasets – which we’re calling ‘Global 2’. In this blog I aim to provide an overview of what these new data are, why they matter, how you can use them, and a glimpse of what’s coming next. What was Global 1? Back in 2018, the WorldPop team […]
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The WorldPop research programme, based in the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at the University of Southampton, is a multi-sectoral team of researchers, technicians and project specialists that produces data on population distributions and characteristics at high spatial resolution.
Initiated in October 2013 to combine The AfriPop Project, AsiaPop and AmeriPop projects, we have a diverse portfolio of projects, including large multi-million-pound collaborative projects with partner organisations, commercial data providers and international development organisations.
