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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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New webinar showcases how geospatial data reaches zero-dose children in remote regions

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Last week, the DHIS2 community broadcast a significant webinar detailing how high-resolution WorldPop population data has been integrated into the DHIS2 platform. This digital integration is transforming how life-saving vaccines are delivered in low- and middle-income countries. With WorldPop’s 100m population grid cells now integrated in

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Refugee-hosting districts show stronger maternal health outcomes in Uganda, study finds

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Districts in Uganda that host refugees are seeing slightly better maternal and child health outcomes than those that do not, according to new research analysing routine health data from 2020 to 2023.  The Countdown to 2030 study, led by Rogers Nsubuga, PhD researcher at Makerere University, Uganda, found higher coverage in

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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 joins the first cohort of DHIS2 Strategic Technology Partners

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Our mission as a digital public good is to make high-quality, open population data accessible and usable for better decision-making. Delivering on that mission increasingly depends on strong partnerships, particularly with platforms that sit at the core of national data systems. It is in this context

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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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Mapping Human Impact: WorldPop Open Data Powering Global Journalism

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next At WorldPop, our mission is to ensure that every person is mapped and counted in decision making, providing the high-resolution open-access data necessary to tackle the world’s most pressing challenges. Increasingly, our datasets are becoming a cornerstone for data-driven journalism, helping newsrooms translate complex scientific projections into tangible human

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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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Mapping the Future: How WorldPop Global 2 is Revolutionizing Health Data in DHIS2 

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next During today’s WorldPop Global 2 – Yearly High-Resolution Population Data in DHIS2 webinar, experts from DHIS2 and WorldPop unveiled how they are collaborating to assist researchers, NGOs and governments understand where people live and how to reach them with essential services. The incorporation of the new WorldPop Global 2 open dataset within the DHIS2 platform aims to aid the planning of education provision, vaccination programmes, disaster relief efforts, and

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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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