How do you count people who live behind gates or high above the street in tower blocks? This question was at the heart of a recent meeting at Thailand’s National Statistical Office (NSO), bringing together national experts, UN partners, and WorldPop researchers to explore new ways of making population data more accurate and inclusive. On […]
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As we set fresh goals for the new year – whether to learn something new, develop new skills, or make a bigger impact in our work or studies – WorldPop’s learning resources offer a rich and accessible way to grow your understanding of population data and geospatial analysis for global good. These free, expert-created materials
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How many people live in a neighbourhood, a village, or a city block? It sounds like a simple question, but for millions of people around the world, the answer is still unclear. Accurate, local population data is essential for everything from planning health services and responding to disasters to allocating resources fairly. Yet traditional national
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How do you count everyone in a country where some communities are hard to reach because of geography, insecurity, or limited infrastructure? This is the challenge Cameroon is taking on as it prepares for its first national census in nearly two decades, and it’s doing so with an innovative hybrid approach. Earlier this week in
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WorldPop recently completed its first workshop on automated census mapping in Malawi, a milestone for the joint FCDO-funded project with the Malawi National Statistics Office (NSO) ahead of their 2028 national census. Led by Dr Sarchil Qader and Dr Aubrey Steingrabber over two intensive weeks, 22 NSO colleagues and 4 students from the University of
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In late October, WorldPop joined statistical leaders from across the Caribbean at the 50th meeting of the Caribbean Community’s (CARICOM) Standing Committee on Caribbean Statistics in Willemstad, Curaçao. Deputy Director Ian Coady, Senior Enterprise Fellow Dr Natalia Garavito-Tejedor and Senior Programme Coordinator, Kathryn Baxter represented WorldPop at a moment when high-quality, accessible data is becoming
A major breakthrough in data collection and analysis is underway in Somalia, thanks in large part to the technical leadership of WorldPop in a transformative new project aimed at strengthening evidence-based planning in one of the world’s most data-scarce countries. The initiative, “Generation of Socio-Demographic Data for Evidence-Based Programming in South-Central Somalia,” marks the first
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A new international partnership launched today between WorldPop at the University of Southampton and the UK Office for National Statistics (ONS) is set to support the National Statistics Office (NSO) of Malawi in planning its 2028 national census, by introducing innovative, automated mapping methods that significantly reduce cost and effort. At the heart of the
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WorldPop director, Professor Andy Tatem recently spoke at the Indian High Commission in London at an India-UK Education Collaboration event. Presenting WorldPop’s impactful work in India, he highlighted the challenges of nations large, densely packed, and diverse population, and explained why detailed, current small-area population data are crucial for election planning, GDP calculation, disaster preparedness,
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In a new global survey, users of WorldPop’s 2015-2030 Demographic Data Beta version are overwhelmingly giving the data and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affair’s (OCHA) Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX) platform high marks for satisfaction, accessibility, and quality. The survey, conducted by the HDX reveals that users of new WorldPop data
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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.
