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Photo of delegates at the Human Planet Forum, JRC Ispra, Italy - 19–21 November 2025

Progress in Population and Urban Data: Highlights from the Human Planet Forum 2025

26 November 2025
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WorldPop Global 2: A New Era of High-Resolution Population Data

20 November 2025
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Movement, Population, and Infection: How Mobility Data Is Transforming Epidemic Modelling and Control

18 November 2025
Animation showing population distribution of Bogata under SSP1 scenario, 2025-2100

New Global 1 km Population Projections Released to Advance Climate and Health Research (Version 0.2)

12 November 2025
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Lessons from COVID-19: How Data and Modelling Evolved During the Pandemic

27 October 2025
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The Future is Geospatial: Powering Africa’s Growth with Location Intelligence

24 October 2025
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Advancing Wastewater Surveillance and Population Mapping at Dhaka Stakeholder Engagement Meeting

15 October 2025
Photo of Dr Jessica Espey, Deputy Director (Research) delivering the Day 2 keynote address at Evidence25, Cotonou, Benin

Highlighting African Leadership in Evidence-Informed Policymaking at Evidence25

7 October 2025
Photo of the flooded areas of Borno State after the Alau dam collapsed, triggered extensive floods.

How WorldPop Data Powers Google’s Global Flood Forecasting Revolution

25 September 2025
Photo of Dr Sarchil Qader leading a workshop for the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics

WorldPop: Sharpening Pakistan’s Survey Tools with Geospatial Know-How

24 September 2025
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Mapping People, Powering Response: WorldPop’s Work in Focus

17 September 2025
Map showing building and population counts observed in the 213 micro-census clusters located within the modelling environment categorised by settlement class

Further Improvement for Public Health Planning: WorldPop Brings High-Resolution Population Estimates to DRC

11 September 2025
Screen capture of The Power of Population Data webinar, showing Dr Maksym Bondarenko, Dr Jessica Espey and Professor Andy Tatem

New Global Population Dataset Unveiled at Packed WorldPop Webinar

9 September 2025
Animation showing population growth in Lagos, Nigeria, modelled for 2015-2030.

WorldPop Unveils Global 2: Next-Generation Global Population Dataset

4 September 2025
An image of WorldPop Global 2 population estimates overlaid on satellite imagery for Northern Europe showing high population numbers in white and lower numbers in red. 2025

WorldPop ‘Global2’: Global high-resolution population estimates for 2015-2030

3 September 2025
Photo of data collection, Kahda, Somalia SNBS, 2025

Supporting Groundbreaking Data Initiative in Somalia

3 September 2025
Photo of a Malawi village.

WorldPop Brings Cutting-Edge Mapping Technology to Support Malawi’s 2028 Census

2 September 2025
Photo of an Adhoc Registrar, supporting a mother during a digital birth registration drive in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, part of a nationwide effort to ensure every child has a legal identity

Teaming up With UNICEF to Find and Vaccinate Zero-Dose Children

1 September 2025
Maps showing cluster level estimates of proportions of children aged 12-23 months and 9-35 months who had received DTP1 and MCV1, respectively, obtained using the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey.

Smarter Maps, Healthier Lives: New Study Reveals Best Tools to Target Vaccine Gaps

28 August 2025
Maps showing predicted malaria prevalence in children under five and number of infected children in regions of very low to moderate transmission in Senegal (excluding Dakar for visibility purposes).

New Study Maps Malaria Risk in Senegal by Blending Environment and Vulnerability 

21 August 2025
Photo of Chris Nnanatu presenting at JSM 2025

WorldPop Showcases Population Modelling at Global Statistics Summit

19 August 2025
Maps of Europe showing heat-related excess mortality projected annual average heat-related excess deaths per million population at a 1.5 °C, b 2.0 °C, c 3.0 °C, and (d) 4.0 °C.

New Study Warns of Sharp Rise in Heat-Related Deaths Across Europe Due to Climate Change

12 August 2025
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WorldPop Co-Produces Vital Population Data for UN Disaster Risk Study

7 August 2025
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Discover the Power of Population Data: Join Our Upcoming Webinar

6 August 2025
Graphic image showing comparison of population count estimates modelled from new covariates (year 2024) and population count estimates modelled from earlier covariates (year 2020) for Luanda (Angola).

New Open Access Geospatial Datasets to Enhance Global Population Mapping

5 August 2025
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New Method Revolutionises Population Mapping for Better Planning

31 July 2025
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Greenpeace Uses WorldPop Data to Map Global Petrochemical Pollution Risks

30 July 2025
Photo of Dr Edson Utazi standing next to a Spatial Statistic 2025 conference poster

Population Data and Vaccine Mapping in Focus at Key Global Conferences

23 July 2025
Photo of Professor Andy Tatem presenting WorldPop's work at the Indian High Commission in London. 10 July 2025.

Mapping Populations for India’s Development

22 July 2025
World map showing distribution of surevy responders.

WorldPop Beta Data Users Give High Marks in New Global Survey

17 July 2025
Photo of a a survey team undertake field testing of Enumeration Area mapping in Abomey Calavi, Benin

Disappearing People: The Future of Public Policy Depends on Co-Development in Demographic Data 

19 June 2025
Regional map of West and Central Africa showing results from the Reach the Unreached project

Despite Progress Nearly 1 Million Children in West Africa Still Miss Out on Life-Saving Vaccines 

10 June 2025
Screen capture form Google Earth of Nairobi, Kenya

The We Society: Population, Data & Destiny

4 June 2025
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How WorldPop Uses Google Open Building Data

3 June 2025
Estimated global population counts in 2025 for each 100x100m grid square. Yellow/green = high numbers, Blue = low/zero numbers.

Beta Test Our New Global Population Data – 2015 to 2030

1 May 2025
Dr Sarchil Qader training Somali trainers in Nairobi, Kenya

Building Census Readiness: Geospatial Training Boosts Capacity for Somali Statisticians

15 April 2025
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New Method Developed for High-Resolution Mapping of Refugee Populations

3 January 2025
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New Research Maps Vaccination Coverage Gaps in Nigeria to Support Measles Control Efforts

3 January 2025
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New Tool Maps Progress in Child and Maternal Health Across Low- and Middle-Income Countries

3 January 2025
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New Study Reviews How Human Mobility Data Shaped Our Understanding of COVID-19 Transmission

3 January 2025
WorldPop 10-year Anniversary Event

WorldPop 10-year Anniversary Event

23 October 2024
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WorldPop’s Global Impact Highlighted in New Report by Dev-Afrique

13 September 2024
Professor Tatem at the UN World Data Forum, Dubai, UAE, 2018

WorldPop to advise UK government on big data, machine learning and AI

1 May 2024
UN General Assembly

WorldPop Directors Discuss Data Empowerment at UN Statistical Commission

4 April 2024
Photo of GIS Analyst Iyanuloluwa Olowe leading a workshop session

Geospatial Capacity Strengthening in Nigeria

27 March 2024
Research Fellow Dr Aubrey Steingraber guides workshop participants practice with geospatial tools to validate preEA boundaries and collect GPS household locations

Preparing a National Sampling Frame: capacity strengthening in Cameroon

26 February 2024
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Conflict Exposure Calculator: a new tool to measure the impact of conflict

9 February 2024
Senior Enterprise Fellow Dr Natalia Tejedor-Garavito addressing DANE's “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count" meeting in Bogotá, Colombia

WorldPop at “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count” in Bogotá, Colombia

11 January 2024
Climate-smart soils: testing soil health in Western Kenya

New open-source dataset and interactive web portal unlocks hidden potential for health and climate research

9 January 2024
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Training and technical support for Thai census

20 December 2023
Data for Decision-Making panel, MEED Conference for Regional Development (Kurdsat News)

Data and regional development in Iraqi Kurdistan

8 December 2023
Punta del Este, Uruguay

Festival de Datos: the Data for Development Festival

16 November 2023
Repatriation of IDPs in North Darfur

WorldPop agrees MOU with ACLED

16 August 2023
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Capacity strengthening workshop supporting INEC Panama’s and DANE Colombia’s socio-economic surveys.

17 July 2023
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Technical assistance and training on modelled population estimates and national sampling frames to support census in Latin America and the Caribbean region

27 June 2023
Dr Sarchil Qader assisting training workshop participants in Benin

Strengthening skills in South Africa, Zambia and Benin

24 May 2023
Screenshot from Andy Tatem's Geopalooza 3.o presentation

“We don’t want population data just sitting on a shelf”: Professor Andy Tatem at Geopalooza 3.0

23 May 2023
Photo of Dr Chris Nnanatu running a Geospatial Statistical Modelling in R workshop at Nnamdi Azikiwe University. Awka, Nigeria, 17 February 2023.

Health and population data R workshop in southern Nigeria

13 March 2023
Photo of Chairman of NPC, Hon Nasir Isa Kwarra with WorldPop Senior Research Fellow, Dr Chris Nnanatu. Abuja, Nigeria, 9 February 2023.

“You count, be counted” – Capacity strengthening workshops supporting Nigeria’s census

24 February 2023
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What effect will lunar new year have on COVID spread in China? Our modelling shows most people have already been infected

6 February 2023
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A virtual preEA workshop for the Guinea and Benin

20 December 2022
Photo of Ms Nipapan Borompichaichatkul receiving a Workshop on Modelling Population Estimates to Support Census Processes in Thailand certificate from Professor Andy Tatem

Workshop on modelled population estimates in Thailand

7 December 2022
Photo of workshop in progress, Papua New Guinea

Population estimation workshop aids decision making in Papua New Guinea

23 November 2022
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Population modelling and mapping workshop supports health planning in Ghana

14 November 2022
GRID3 consultant Chisenga Musuka with printed microplanning map used by Ministry of Health EPI teams for vaccination planning, Lusaka, Zambia

Capacity strengthening in Papua New Guinea and Zambia

8 November 2022
Winfre Dotse-Gborgbortsi receiving runner-up prize at the ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize 2022 ceremony

WorldPop researcher celebrated for outstanding Early Career impact

3 November 2022
Map showing population across Africa, with inset maps for Lusaka and Kinshasa, by Heather Chamberlain

WorldPop takes the #30DayMapChallenge

24 October 2022
Slide: Demographic Data Challenges

Video: Understanding population distributions supports health programmes, census preparation and disaster response

21 September 2022
Sarchil Qader presenting the preEA tool, Benin

Benin adopts WorldPop’s ‘preEA’ tool to conduct its first modern, digitised census

12 September 2022
National Primary Healthcare Development Agency, Abuja

Capacity strengthening in Nigeria

10 August 2022
Edith Darin presenting at IBGE workshop 2022

Working with Brazil’s National Statistics Office as they prepare for their biggest ever census

21 June 2022
Field surveyors carrying out data collection in wheat field

Exploring satellite datasets and advanced statistical models to estimate crop production in Iraq

20 May 2022
Example preEA Tool output, where urban preEA outlines overlaid on high resolution satellite imagery.

Supporting socio-economic surveys in the DRC

20 May 2022
Photo of a community health worker conducting a survey in the Korail slum, Bangladesh

Finding where population health studies have been conducted to inform climate-health research

20 May 2022
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WorldPop, open data for spatial demography

19 May 2022
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Seasonal association between viral causes of hospitalised acute lower respiratory infections and meteorological factors in China: a retrospective study

30 March 2022
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International population movements and regional Plasmodium falciparum malaria elimination strategies

30 March 2022
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Exploring the use of mobile phone data for national migration statistics

29 March 2022
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Evaluating nighttime lights and population distribution as proxies for mapping anthropogenic CO2 emission in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos

19 April 2021
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Changing epidemiology and challenges of malaria in China towards elimination

19 April 2021
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High-resolution gridded population datasets for Latin America and the Caribbean in 2010, 2015, and 2020

19 April 2021
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Assessing the impact of coordinated COVID-19 exit strategies across Europe

16 April 2021
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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.

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