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Photo of Dr Chris Nnanatu with Prince Adeyemi Adeniran, Statistician General, National Bureau of Statistics (pictured centre) and team members from the United Nations Population Fund Nigeria, National Population Commission, National Primary Health Care Development Agency, and Nnamdi Azikiwe University

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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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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Build a Population Map with LEGO at the Southampton Science & Engineering Festival 

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next What can LEGO® bricks tell us about the world’s population? Quite a lot, it turns out.  The Southampton Science & Engineering Festival (SOTSEF) is a free public event where scientists, engineers and researchers share fun, hands-on activities that show how science and technology shape our everyday

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Map showing building and population counts observed in the 213 micro-census clusters located within the modelling environment categorised by settlement class

Further Improvement for Public Health Planning: WorldPop Brings High-Resolution Population Estimates to DRC

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A new study led by Senior Research Fellow, Dr Gianluca Boo has introduced a powerful new Bayesian model to estimate population distribution in Kasaï-Oriental province, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), offering critical insights in a region where public health data has long been scarce. At the heart of this advanced research is a method

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Maps showing cluster level estimates of proportions of children aged 12-23 months and 9-35 months who had received DTP1 and MCV1, respectively, obtained using the 2018 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey.

Smarter Maps, Healthier Lives: New Study Reveals Best Tools to Target Vaccine Gaps

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How do we find out where vaccines aren’t reaching people – especially in places with limited data? A new study led by Dr Edson Utazi at WorldPop, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, has evaluated how different statistical and machine learning methods perform in mapping vaccination coverage at high resolution.

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Maps showing predicted malaria prevalence in children under five and number of infected children in regions of very low to moderate transmission in Senegal (excluding Dakar for visibility purposes).

New Study Maps Malaria Risk in Senegal by Blending Environment and Vulnerability 

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Senegal is pushing to eliminate malaria by 2030, and a new study could help target the fight more precisely. Researchers at the University of Namur, Belgium, the University of Ghana and WorldPop at the University of Southampton have developed a powerful new way to map malaria risk across the country by integrating both environmental “hazards”

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WorldPop Showcases Population Modelling at Global Statistics Summit

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WorldPop Senior Research Fellow Dr Chris Nnanatu recently took centre stage at the 2025 Joint Statistical Meeting (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, one of the world’s leading gatherings of statisticians, co-hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS). Dr Nnanatu presented pioneering research on improving global population estimates using satellite technology,

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Regional map of West and Central Africa showing results from the Reach the Unreached project

Despite Progress Nearly 1 Million Children in West Africa Still Miss Out on Life-Saving Vaccines 

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By Attila N Lazar and Tim O’Riordan While global immunisation efforts have seen significant progress, our new high-resolution, digital population and vaccination coverage maps produced for the UNICEF-funded Reach the Unreached project indicate that nearly one million children in five West and Central African countries remain unreached by vaccination services. Despite increased access in many

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Screen capture form Google Earth of Nairobi, Kenya

The We Society: Population, Data & Destiny

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In a fascinating conversation with journalist and Academy of Social Sciences President Will Hutton, Professor Andy Tatem explains how satellite imagery and mobile phone data are transforming population mapping across the Global South. Used by governments for critical resource allocation, these data is reshaping how policies are made. Professor Tatem shares real-world examples from Papua

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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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