Last week, WorldPop held “Mapping the Future of Spatial Demography”, an event to celebrate its 10th anniversary. It was a great success, bringing together technical experts, researchers, and policy makers for an afternoon filled with insightful presentations and engaging discussions. Event participants came from a wide variety of sectors and disciplines, each with an interest […]
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For the last 11 years, WorldPop has been providing open-access, high-resolution population estimates, which equip researchers, governments, international organisations, and NGOs with critical data to target interventions and drive sustainable development. Through innovative methods and tools for demographic modelling, WorldPop bridges gaps in the availability, quality and accessibility of population data.A newly released impact assessment
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Our director, Professor Andy Tatem has been appointed ‘Big data, machine learning and AI’ expert on the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Research Advisory Group – a significant new role at the heart of an important government ministry. The UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) Research Advisory Group (RAG) provides strategic guidance, rapid
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In February, our Director, Andy Tatem, and Deputy Director for Engagement, Ian Coady, participated in the UN Statistical Commission meeting in New York. Their focus was to address critical issues relevant to WorldPop, including population and housing censuses, health statistics, and the integration of statistics and geospatial data. The overarching theme of the week-long event
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To strengthen in-country capacity, WorldPop, supported by Gavi, recently conducted two capacity-strengthening workshops in Nigeria. Our geospatial experts Dr Edson Utazi and Iyanuloluwa Olowe led sessions focused on methodologies for producing gridded estimates of vaccination coverage and identifying zero-dose children. 38 participants from 11 organisations including the National Primary Health Care Development Agency, MOMENTUM Routine
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Senior Researcher Dr Sarchil Qader and Specialist GIS Technician Dr Aubrey Steingraber have recently returned from Cameroon where they conducted an 8-day workshop and high-level engagement to support the development of a national sampling frame for the country. The lack of an up-to-date national sampling frame that accurately lists the businesses and household addresses needed
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New research by WorldPop and ACLED, the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, indicates that more than 1 billion people – 14% of the world population – were living within five kilometres of conflict or civil protest in 2023. This important finding has been uncovered by a new conflict exposure metric that combines WorldPop’s
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The head of our Geospatial Data and Analysis team, Dr Natalia Tejedor-Garavito was a guest speaker and panellist at the “Statistical Mind: 70 making us all count” meeting in Bogotá, Colombia in December. The event was organised by the National Administrative Department of Statistics of Colombia (DANE) as part of their 70th anniversary celebrations and
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A team led by Principal Enterprise Fellow Dr Natalia-Tejedor-Garavito has recently completed a ground-breaking initiative aimed at improving our understanding of the impact of climate on human health. Through this Wellcome Trust-funded project the team developed an open-source geospatial dataset and interactive web portal that demonstrates the potential for combining health monitoring data with climate
Earlier this month the Thailand National Statistical Office (TNSO) concluded the second phase of innovative WorldPop training in spatial population modelling. Organised by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Thailand to help improve the efficiency and accuracy of census processes in the country more than 25 participants from the TSNO, academia, and the UNFPA joined
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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.
