News
Read the latest news and stories from WorldPop programmes and people that inspire.
WorldPop Unveils Global 2: Next-Generation Global Population Dataset
4 September 2025
Supporting Groundbreaking Data Initiative in Somalia
3 September 2025
Teaming up With UNICEF to Find and Vaccinate Zero-Dose Children
1 September 2025
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.