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Photo of Dr Somnath Chaudhuri

🌍 Counting Everyone, Everywhere: The Power of Small Area Population Data

🗓 Date: November 18, 2025
🕐 Time: 1:00 PM (London)
🌍 Organiser: #OpenGeoHub
🔗 Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vpY1J1NaRd-Esgqhv4GA9A#

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Photo of Dr Sarchil Qader leading a population estimation workshop in Beirut, Lebanon

A population estimation workshop was held in Beirut last week with Lebanon’s Central Administration of Statistics, ministries & UN partners.

With no census since 1932 geospatial modelling can fill major data gaps to guide Lebanon's recovery & planning.

#WorldPop #Lebanon #DataForDevelopment

Photo of man wearing mask by Jeyaratnam Caniceus via Pixabay https://pixabay.com/photos/man-face-mask-covid19-road-mask-6153671/

🔬 A new #MOOD #HorizonEU study reveals how #COVID19 modelling, data use & collaboration evolved across #Europe - offering key lessons for future pandemics.

📖 🔊Read more + listen: https://www.worldpop.org/blog/lessons-from-covid-19-how-data-and-modelling-evolved-during-the-pandemic/

@REA

Photo of Dr Chris Nnanatu speaking remotely at Data Science Nigeria AI Bootcamp 2025

🌍 “The future is geospatial.”

Dr. Chris Nnanatu at #DSNAIBootcamp2025 shared how #AI + Location Intelligence can power Africa’s growth through data-driven innovation. 🚀

#DataForGood #Africa #Geospatial #Innovation #DataScienceNigeria […]

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Photo of street in Lilongwe, Malawi N J Spicer 2006 CC BY 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/9v3jcc

🛰️📊We're piloting AI and satellite data with Malawi’s NSO to update census areas ahead of 2028. Boosting accuracy while cutting costs.

#DataForDevelopment #FundedByFCDO #Malawi #Census2028 #InnovationInStats

🔗 https://www.worldpop.org/current-projects/fcdo-malawi/

Photo of Dr Somnath Chaudhuri speaking at the stakeholders’ engagement meeting, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Dr Somnath Chaudhuri joined #Dhaka stakeholders last week to boost wastewater surveillance & population mapping. Showing how we support planning for emergency response.🌍📊

#PublicHealth #PopulationData #UrbanHealth #WastewaterSurveillance #DataForDevelopment […]

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Photo of Evidence25 speakers and delegates

🎤📊#Evidence25 Conference in #Benin spotlights how #Africa is embedding local data & research into smarter policy.

Dr Jessica Espey keynote calls for stronger regional collaboration, institutional links & centring African voices in evidence systems […]

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Maps showing comparison between raw floating-point data and integerized data produced by the traditional round, WorldPop stochastic integerization, and LandScan residual redistribution methods.

🚀New research in International Journal of Geographical Information Science - innovative method converts fractional population estimates into accurate integers, preserving totals, spatial detail & demographic consistency.

🌍#GeoData #PopulationStats

🔗🔊Report […]

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Photo of Dr Mollie Van Gordon (Gates Foundation) with senior WorldPop team at the University of Southampton

We're thrilled to welcome Dr Mollie Van Gordon, Senior Program Officer -Geospatial Insights (Gates Foundation) to WorldPop this week! Her visit focuses on aligning research with geospatial data priorities, shaping future collaboration, and setting a vision […]

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Screen capture of Google Flood Hub: Significant flood event information, 25 September 2025

🌊 With climate risks rising, AI + human‑centred data is making waves. Discover how WorldPop’s high-resolution population data helps Google’s Flood Hub predict floods and identify who’s at risk, covering 700M+ people in 100+ countries.

#ClimateTech […]

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Photo of WorldPop Senior Research Fellows Dr Sarchil Qader and Dr Gianluca Boo with AI Assisted Sampling Workshop participants at the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics.

🚀 We’re thrilled to support Pakistan Bureau of Statistics and #UNFPA in modernising survey sampling in #Pakistan ! From #AI to #satellite data, our #training boosts capacity for smarter, faster, & more inclusive data - key for disaster response & national […]

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📹 Dr Natalia Tejedor Garavito presents WorldPop’s cutting-edge work at CrisisReady’s Café Catastrófico ☕

🌍 From mapping war-torn Ukraine to guiding flood relief, this data saves lives.

Watch her talk (🇪🇸 w/ 🇬🇧 subs) […]

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

🚨 New study: A Bayesian model maps population in Kasaï-Oriental, #DRC with 1-hectare detail, the first of its kind! Estimated 4.1M people.

An important advance for #health planning, #vaccines & emergency response.

Read & listen […]

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Screen capture of The Power of Population Data webinar, showing Dr Maksym Bondarenko, Dr Jessica Espey and Professor Andy Tatem.

Missed The Power of Population Data webinar?

🎥 The recording & presentation slides are now available! Dive into the latest on WorldPop’s Global 2 dataset and how it's shaping smarter decisions worldwide. 🌍📊

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🌍 Released today: WorldPop's Global 2 (2015-2030) dataset! High-res (100m), open-access global population estimates (2015–2030) by age & sex across 242 countries.

Smarter modelling, better accuracy, and new census data.

👉 […]

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An image of WorldPop Global2 population estimates overlaid on satellite imagery for Northern Europe showing high population numbers in white and lower numbers in red. 2025

🌍 Tomorrow we launch WorldPop Global 2: A new era of global high-resolution population data (2015–2030)!

Built with AI & satellite imagery, it's open, powerful & ready for use in health, planning & disaster response.

🔗 […]

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Screen capture of Somalia National Bureau of Statistics dashboard

🚀Pioneering data for Somalia’s future!

WorldPop, SNBS & UNFPA are training Somali statisticians in geospatial tools to map pre‑census areas in key districts. Helping build a modern census from the ground up.

#DataForDevelopment #Somalia #Census #PreEA

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Photo of a Malawi village by leliebloem, 2018 CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 https://flic.kr/p/29rg4KQ

🚀 Exciting news! In partnership with the UK’s ONS & funded by FCDO, we're introducing automated mapping tech to Malawi’s National Statistics Office.

Streamlining the 2028 #census for fast, cost-efficient, and accurate enumeration.

#DataForGood #Malawi

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Photo of an Adhoc Registrar, supports a mother during a digital birth registration drive in Port Harcourt, Nigeria, part of a nationwide effort to ensure every child has a legal identity. © UNICEF 2024

WorldPop & #UNICEF team up to map zero‑dose children using #AI, #satellite #data & #geospatial analytics so we can locate and vaccinate those who've never received routine immunisations.

Turning high‑resolution data into lifesaving action.

#vaccination […]

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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.

Where are vaccines missing the mark?

🧭🩺 A new study maps vaccine coverage using geostatistics & machine learning - revealing the best tools to find and fix coverage gaps in low-data regions. 🌍📊

#DataForGood #Geostatistics #LeaveNoOneBehind

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Front cover of ReliefWeb report on Pakistan floods, August 2025

Using #WorldPop data, UNOSAT estimates ~41,000 people remain exposed to floodwaters in KP as of Aug 20, despite receding levels. Pakistan’s monsoon floods since June have caused 785 deaths & widespread damage.

#PakistanFloods2025 […]

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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). a, b show the posterior predicted prevalence and uncertainty estimates as a standard deviation (SD) on a 1 × 1 km resolution grid, respectively. c shows the number of infected children under five per health district, obtained by combining the predicted prevalence and child counts. d shows population-adjusted prevalence aggregated to health district level.

🚨New study co-authored by WorldPop researchers maps malaria risk in #Senegal in detail - combining environment + vulnerability data to pinpoint hotspots.

🚀 A powerful tool as the country races toward malaria elimination by 2030.

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veryspatial.com logo superimposed on population estimate map

How do you map populations where no recent census exists? 🌍📊

In this VerySpatial podcast, we share how we use geospatial & satellite data to fill gaps, support UN agencies, and power decisions in crisis zones.

🔊 Listen now […]

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Photo of JSM 2025 conference hall at Music City Center, Nashville

🌍📊 Big strides in population mapping!

At #JSM2025, WorldPop's Dr Chris Nnanatu unveiled cutting-edge research using satellite data to improve global population estimates - especially where data is scarce.

📡 49% less bias.
📍 Smarter models.
🚀 Better […]

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Graphic showing the WorldPop logo and the title of a webinar: The Power of Population Data: Introducing WorldPop Global 2015-2030, 3pm BST, 4 September 2025.

🌍 Big data, big impact! Join us on 4 Sep for the launch of WorldPop Global 2015–2030 - a new open-access, high-res, age & sex-disaggregated population estimate dataset covering 242 countries

📅 4 Sep | 🕒 3 pm BST
🔗 Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1374590861269

#PopulationData #OpenData

Maps of Europe showing heat-related excess mortality projected annual average heat-related excess deaths per million population at a 1.5 °C, b 2.0 °C, c 3.0 °C, and (d) 4.0 °C.

🔥 Europe faces a deadly future as extreme heat and an aging population collide. A new study using WorldPop population data warns heat-related deaths could soar - especially among the elderly - unless urgent, bold adaptation measures are taken.

#ClimateCrisis […]

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Photorealistic image of a child in a refugee camp

🌍 How can data save lives during disasters?

WorldPop co-produced high-resolution population data for a new UN study, helping map how vulnerable groups across Latin America & the Caribbean face risks from floods, earthquakes, and more.

Smarter data = smarter […]

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AI art image of globe on a stage with 'Global 2' sign watched by a large audience

📊 Discover The Power of Population Data! 🌍

Join WorldPop’s free webinar on Sept 4 to learn about our new high-res, open-access population datasets (2015–2030) for 242 countries.

Learn from experts + get your questions answered!

🔗 Register now […]

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Graphic image showing comparison of population count estimates modelled from new covariates (year 2024) and population count estimates modelled from 2020 covariates for Luanda (Angola)

🌍 We’re excited to share the release of 73 high-resolution, multi-temporal global geospatial open access datasets.

Led by Dorothea Woods, this ground breaking collection is set to transform how we model and understand human population distribution.

📅 […]

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Graphic map comparing different methods of integerisation.

🚀 New Development in Population Mapping!

No more confusing 2.3 people per grid cell — the new integerisation method from WorldPop turns fractional data into whole numbers without losing accuracy.

✅ Accurate totals & demographic consistency
✅ Easier-to-read […]

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