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High-resolution mapping identifies Guinea worm hotspots to support global eradication

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next WorldPop Associate Professor, Dr Edson Utazi presented Mapping the Risk of Guinea Worm Disease project findings last week at the 2026 Guinea Worm Eradication Program (GWEP) Research Review meeting, organised by The Carter Center. The meeting brought together experts from across the world working in areas such as genomics, geospatial […]

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How Population Explorer Turns WorldPop Open Data into Action  

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Understanding where people live is critical in high-stakes situations. In humanitarian crises, it determines where aid goes; in commercial contexts, it shapes investment decisions. The core need is the same: accurate, granular population insight that can be used quickly. Co-founded by US-based data for development practitioner

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WorldPop researchers improve mapping accuracy for rare habitats

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Researchers at WorldPop have pioneered a new mathematical model that significantly improves the accuracy of geospatial mapping for rare and endangered habitats.  The study, published in the International Journal of Geographical Information Science, introduces the Entropogram-based Random Field (ERF) model. This tool addresses a critical gap in environmental monitoring: the

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New high-resolution mapping reveals critical measles vaccination gaps in children

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next A team of international researchers led by WorldPop Associate Professor Edson Utazi, has developed a new geospatial mapping method to identify exactly where and at what age children are missing life-saving measles vaccines. Accurate and contemporary data is essential for the success of immunisation programs in

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

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On Tuesday, October 21, Senior Research Fellow Dr. Chris Nnanatu delivered a keynote presentation at the 2025 Data Science Nigeria AI Bootcamp, where he spoke on a topic shaping Africa’s digital future: “The Future is Geospatial: Powering Africa’s Growth with Location Intelligence (LI).” Dr. Nnanatu explored how geospatial and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are transforming

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Advancing Wastewater Surveillance and Population Mapping at Dhaka Stakeholder Engagement Meeting

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Dr Somnath Chaudhuri, Research Fellow at WorldPop, recently visited Dhaka to participate in a key stakeholder engagement meeting for the Gates Foundation-funded project Blue Line Tracing and Wastewater Surveillance in Dhaka. The initiative, a multi-institutional collaboration involving icddr,b (formerly known as the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh), the University of Virginia, Imperial College

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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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