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Using Digital Trace Data to Understand Human Movement in Crises 

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next At this year’s Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week in Geneva, a session explored how emerging digital data sources could help humanitarian organisations better understand how people move during crises. Representing WorldPop, Dr Sarchil Qader joined a panel examining how signals from mobile phones, online platforms, and other connected […]

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High-Resolution Mapping Sheds Light on Rapid Urban Growth

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Take Our Survey and Help Shape What Comes Next Rapid urban growth is reshaping cities across Africa, Latin America and Asia, but in many places, reliable and up-to-date data about how cities are expanding simply doesn’t exist. New research from WorldPop, led by Dr Rhorom Priyatikanto, aims to change that.  The team has developed a new dataset that tracks how

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Start the New Year by Exploring WorldPop’s Free Learning Resources

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As we set fresh goals for the new year – whether to learn something new, develop new skills, or make a bigger impact in our work or studies – WorldPop’s learning resources offer a rich and accessible way to grow your understanding of population data and geospatial analysis for global good. These free, expert-created materials

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Mapping the Invisible: How Technology Is Filling the World’s Population Data Gaps

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How many people live in a neighbourhood, a village, or a city block? It sounds like a simple question, but for millions of people around the world, the answer is still unclear. Accurate, local population data is essential for everything from planning health services and responding to disasters to allocating resources fairly. Yet traditional national

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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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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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