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Rebalancing Global Health: Why Local Leadership Matters in Disease Modelling

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next An international team of researchers, including experts from the University of Ghana and WorldPop, is urging a rethink in how we model infectious diseases, and who gets to lead that work. Their study’s message is simple: to make global health fairer and more effective, countries most […]

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Refugee-hosting districts show stronger maternal health outcomes in Uganda, study finds

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Districts in Uganda that host refugees are seeing slightly better maternal and child health outcomes than those that do not, according to new research analysing routine health data from 2020 to 2023.  The Countdown to 2030 study, led by Rogers Nsubuga, PhD researcher at Makerere University, Uganda, found higher coverage in

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How Population Explorer Turns WorldPop Open Data into Action  

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Understanding where people live is critical in high-stakes situations. In humanitarian crises, it determines where aid goes; in commercial contexts, it shapes investment decisions. The core need is the same: accurate, granular population insight that can be used quickly. Co-founded by US-based data for development practitioner

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WorldPop joins the first cohort of DHIS2 Strategic Technology Partners

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Our mission as a digital public good is to make high-quality, open population data accessible and usable for better decision-making. Delivering on that mission increasingly depends on strong partnerships, particularly with platforms that sit at the core of national data systems. It is in this context

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Strengthening Population Data in Nigeria Through Co-developing Geospatial Innovation

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next WorldPop Senior Research Fellow and Head of Spatial Statistics and Population Modelling (SSPM), Dr Chris Nnanatu recently completed a scoping visit to Nigeria as part of preparations for a new collaborative initiative focused on enhancing the country’s population data systems. The visit brought together key national

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Mapping Somalia’s Future: Inside WorldPop’s Data Workshop in Nairobi

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Researchers from WorldPop recently ran an intensive 10-day workshop in Nairobi, bringing together experts from the Somalia National Bureau of Statistics (SNBS) and the Somalia Country Office United Nations Population Fund. While the setting was Kenyan due to security concerns, the focus remained firmly on Somalia,

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Researchers Reveal 63 Million Women at Risk of Zero Maternal Health Services

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next An international research team led by Dr Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Lecturer in Geographies of Health at University College London and Dr Kristine Nilsen, Associate Professor of Global Health & Social Statistics at the University of Southampton, and including investigators from WorldPop has produced the first high-resolution geospatial mapping of women completely disengaged from life-saving maternal and newborn health services across

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WorldPop researchers improve mapping accuracy for rare habitats

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Researchers at WorldPop have pioneered a new mathematical model that significantly improves the accuracy of geospatial mapping for rare and endangered habitats.  The study, published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, introduces the Entropogram-based Random Field (ERF) model. This tool addresses a critical gap in environmental monitoring: the

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Thank You, Olayinka Oke: Advancing Population Science Through Collaboration

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next It is always difficult to say goodbye to colleagues who have made a meaningful impact in a short time, and this is certainly the case as we bid farewell to Olayinka Oke following her secondment with us at WorldPop. Olayinka joined us from Nigeria’s National Population

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Mapping Human Impact: WorldPop Open Data Powering Global Journalism

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next At WorldPop, our mission is to ensure that every person is mapped and counted in decision making, providing the high-resolution open-access data necessary to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. Increasingly, our datasets are becoming a cornerstone for data-driven journalism, helping newsrooms translate complex scientific projections into tangible human

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About Us

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.

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