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The Data Behind the Shield: How Early Warnings and Population Maps Save Lives

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Each year, tropical cyclones threaten more than a billion people living in low-lying coastal cities. As storms grow more intense and cities expand, the stakes are rising. But a recent study led by Dr Haiyan Liu, a visiting researcher with WorldPop, shows that multi-hazard early warnings supported by more effective use of data can dramatically […]

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Mapping the Last Mile: How Data Is Helping Reach Unvaccinated Children

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Imagine a life-saving vaccine is available, but reaching it means walking for hours, sometimes days. For millions of families in low- and middle-income countries, this isn’t a thought experiment. It’s everyday life. In 2021 alone, around 15.7 million children did not receive their first dose of the diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (DTP1) vaccine. One of the biggest challenges

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When Heatwaves Strike, Do City Adaptation Measures Really Help?

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As climate change intensifies, extreme heat is becoming a daily reality for millions of people living in cities. In response, governments are rolling out heat adaptation measures such as cooling centres, greener urban spaces and public heat warnings. But a crucial question remains: do these strategies actually work, and do they work equally for everyone?

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

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The 2025 Human Planet Forum gathered global experts in population modelling, urban analytics, and Earth observation for three days of scientific progress and growing collaboration. A central theme throughout the meeting was the acceleration of high-resolution, openly accessible global datasets and included a presentation by Professor Andy Tatem of our new, open Global 2 (2015-2030)

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

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This week, WorldPop Director Professor Andy Tatem presented during the Monitoring, projecting and hindcasting of human settlements, infrastructure and population session at the Human Planet Forum 2025, introducing the next generation of WorldPop’s global population datasets: Global 2 (2015–2030). These new datasets represent a major step forward in how the world measures, understands, and anticipates

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

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Last month, Principal Enterprise Fellow, Dr Natalia Tejedor Garavito showcased WorldPop’s innovative work at CrisisReady’s Café Catastrófico webinar series. Dr Tejedor Garavito spoke on how WorldPop helps countries, especially those with limited resources, to answer a critical question: where are people, and how many are there? Using satellite imagery, mobile data, and advanced statistical models,

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New Global Population Dataset Unveiled at Packed WorldPop Webinar

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Over 350 people from across the globe tuned in this week to our live webinar as we launched our most advanced population dataset yet – Global 2. Held on 4 September and hosted by Deputy Director, Dr Jessica Espey, The Power of Population Data event showcased how forward-looking data science is transforming our understanding of

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WorldPop Unveils Global 2: Next-Generation Global Population Dataset

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In a major leap forward for global population mapping, WorldPop today are releasing its much-anticipated Global 2 (2015-2030) population dataset, a high-resolution, open-access trove of demographic data that provides a clearer picture of population distribution worldwide. Spanning 242 countries and covering the years 2015 to 2030, the new dataset delivers 100-meter resolution estimates that are

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

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Tomorrow we’re launching WorldPop’s new global gridded population datasets – which we’re calling ‘Global 2’. In this blog I aim to provide an overview of what these new data are, why they matter, how you can use them, and a glimpse of what’s coming next. What was Global 1? Back in 2018, the WorldPop team

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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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