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Mapping Nigeria’s Future: The Road to a Smart National Census

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next An important leap toward a modern and credible national census took place recently in Abuja, Nigeria. On April 30, 2026, the Federal Government officially launched an 18-month initiative to consolidate and modernise Nigeria’s national geospatial database. This high-level event brought together key leaders from the National […]

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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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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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First Automated Census-Mapping Workshop in Malawi a Success 

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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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WorldPop Strengthens Regional Partnerships at CARICOM’s 50th Statistics Meeting in Curaçao

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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

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Supporting Groundbreaking Data Initiative in Somalia

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

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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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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

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UNICEF is harnessing the power of WorldPop’s high-resolution population data to close immunization gaps and reach children who have never received a single vaccine, commonly known as zero-dose children. As part of the Reach the Unreached initiative, WorldPop collaborated with UNICEF as well as CartONG and MapAction to generate detailed, geospatial estimates of under-immunized populations.

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

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A new study by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is showing how smart use of population data can save lives in the face of natural disasters, with WorldPop’s co-produced data at its core. In partnership with national governments and the UNFPA team behind the

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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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