World Pop Research Group

Description

Regularly updating data on population numbers and characteristics to help with effective governance and efficient allocation of resources.

Members of the group work to ensure that everyone is mapped and counted in decision making. The group develops geospatial integration methods to make detailed demographic datasets. Their work features in Nature, Science, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The group's datasets are used by governments, international agencies, academia, NGOs and the private sector. Members work closely with the United Nation agencies and national statistical offices in low and middle-income countries. Their approaches are designed to maximise uptake and impact, and to strengthen local capacity.

Their work focus areas for development and implementation cover population distributions, demographics and dynamics in resource-poor settings. Their geostatistical modelling further integrates data from traditional sources including censuses, and satellite and cellphone datasets.

Members of the group produce high resolution maps of:

• age/sex structures
• births
• poverty
• access to services
• vaccination coverage

They also develop modelling frameworks for subnational migration flows, urban change and disease spread. WorldPop is made up of more than 30 members of staff, including demographers, geographers, ecologists, statisticians, epidemiologists and computer scientists.

Principal funders and collaborators include:

• the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• UK Department for International Development
• the World Bank

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2013

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University of Southampton
Southampton