In a fascinating conversation with journalist and Academy of Social Sciences President Will Hutton, Professor Andy Tatem explains how satellite imagery and mobile phone data are transforming population mapping across the Global South. Used by governments for critical resource allocation, these data is reshaping how policies are made. Professor Tatem shares real-world examples from Papua […]
The We Society: Population, Data & Destiny Read More »
Back in September, BBC Tech Life’s Chris Vallance caught up with our director, Professor Andy Tatem to talk about Google’s Open Buildings project, a massive effort to map and monitor changes in the built environment using satellite data. Professor Tatem explained how this ground breaking dataset is helping WorldPop improve our estimates of where people
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Our new global population datasets covering 15 years from 2015 to 2030 are now freely available to download on the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) website. Following two years of development funded by the Gates Foundation and in collaboration with Jade University of Applied Sciences and the University of Milan, we are pleased to release these
Beta Test Our New Global Population Data – 2015 to 2030 Read More »
Senior Research Fellow Dr Sarchil Qader and GIS Technician Amy Bonnie recently ran an intensive 8-day Training the Trainers workshop in Nairobi, Kenya to help enhance the geospatial capacity of the Somalia National Bureau of Statistics (SNBS) and United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Somalia country office. Run as a key part of our “Generation of
Building Census Readiness: Geospatial Training Boosts Capacity for Somali Statisticians Read More »
Our director, Professor Andy Tatem has been appointed ‘Big data, machine learning and AI’ expert on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Research Advisory Group – a significant new role at the heart of an important government ministry. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Research Advisory Group (RAG) provides strategic guidance, rapid
WorldPop to advise UK government on big data, machine learning and AI Read More »
In February, our Director, Andy Tatem, and Deputy Director for Engagement, Ian Coady, participated in the UN Statistical Commission meeting in New York. Their focus was to address critical issues relevant to WorldPop, including population and housing censuses, health statistics, and the integration of statistics and geospatial data. The overarching theme of the week-long event
WorldPop Directors Discuss Data Empowerment at UN Statistical Commission Read More »
To strengthen in-country capacity, WorldPop, supported by Gavi, recently conducted two capacity-strengthening workshops in Nigeria. Our geospatial experts Dr Edson Utazi and Iyanuloluwa Olowe led sessions focused on methodologies for producing gridded estimates of vaccination coverage and identifying zero-dose children. 38 participants from 11 organisations including the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, MOMENTUM Routine
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Senior Researcher Dr Sarchil Qader and Specialist GIS Technician Dr Aubrey Steingraber have recently returned from Cameroon where they conducted an 8-day workshop and high-level engagement to support the development of a national sampling frame for the country. The lack of an up-to-date national sampling frame that accurately lists the businesses and household addresses needed
Preparing a National Sampling Frame: capacity strengthening in Cameroon Read More »
New research by WorldPop and ACLED, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, indicates that more than 1 billion people – 14% of the world population – were living within five kilometres of conflict or civil protest in 2023. This important finding has been uncovered by a new conflict exposure metric that combines WorldPop’s
Conflict Exposure Calculator: a new tool to measure the impact of conflict Read More »
The head of our Geospatial Data and Analysis team, Dr Natalia Tejedor-Garavito was a guest speaker and panellist at the “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count” meeting in Bogotá, Colombia in December. The event was organised by the National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE) as part of their 70th anniversary celebrations and
WorldPop at “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count” in Bogotá, Colombia Read More »
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.
