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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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Predicting the Next Wave: Mapping the “War” Between Viruses

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health officials have worried about a “triple-demic”, a simultaneous surge of COVID-19, the flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV – an infection that causes common cold-like symptoms). But what if these viruses don’t just spread alongside each other?

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Strengthening population data for better decisions in the Caribbean

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Last week, Deputy Director Ian Coady led a WorldPop expert team contributing to a regional workshop in Bridgetown, Barbados, focused on improving how population data are produced and used across the Caribbean. Delivered jointly with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the event formed part of

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Build a Population Map with LEGO at the Southampton Science & Engineering Festival 

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next What can LEGO® bricks tell us about the world’s population? Quite a lot, it turns out.  The Southampton Science & Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) is a free public event where scientists, engineers and researchers share fun, hands-on activities that show how science and technology shape our everyday

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Using Digital Trace Data to Understand Human Movement in Crises 

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next At this year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week in Geneva, a session explored how emerging digital data sources could help humanitarian organisations better understand how people move during crises. Representing WorldPop, Dr Sarchil Qader joined a panel examining how signals from mobile phones, online platforms, and other connected

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New high-resolution mapping reveals critical measles vaccination gaps in children

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next A team of international researchers led by WorldPop Associate Professor Edson Utazi, has developed a new geospatial mapping method to identify exactly where and at what age children are missing life-saving measles vaccines. Accurate and contemporary data is essential for the success of immunisation programs in

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Mapping the Future: How WorldPop Global 2 is Revolutionizing Health Data in DHIS2 

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next During today’s WorldPop Global 2 – Yearly High-Resolution Population Data in DHIS2 webinar, experts from DHIS2 and WorldPop unveiled how they are collaborating to assist researchers, NGOs and governments understand where people live and how to reach them with essential services. The incorporation of the new WorldPop Global 2 open dataset within the DHIS2 platform aims to aid the planning of education provision, vaccination programmes, disaster relief efforts, and

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From Insight to Impact: WorldPop and JRC Explore Closer Collaboration

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Last week, members of the WorldPop team visited the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission, meeting with the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL), Demography, and Urban and Territorial Analysis teams. The GHSL is a strategic knowledge infrastructure built by the JRC to make 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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