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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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Animation showing level 2 degree of urbanisation around Kinshasa, 2015-30

Mapping People, Places and Change: Exploring WorldPop’s Latest Global Data Releases

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Understanding where and how populations are distributed, and how they shift over time, is at the heart of planning for health services, responding to disasters, designing cities, and tackling global challenges like climate change. WorldPop’s mission has always been to make high-resolution population and demographic data openly available, and the latest batch of global datasets

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Schematic maps showing the spatial entities around Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso identified by the four population datasets

DEGURBA: Why Your Urban Definition Depends on Your Data

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What counts as a city? It sounds like a simple question, until you realise that countries define “urban” in exceptionally different ways. In Denmark, a settlement with 200 people qualifies as urban. In Japan, you need 50,000 residents plus certain economic activities. With standards this far apart, comparing cities across borders is challenging. To smooth

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Photo of Cameroon DEGURBA workshop participants with completion certificates.

Skills for Smarter Planning: How DEGURBA Capacity Building Is Empowering Countries 

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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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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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