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Worldpop: Worldpop

  • Projects and activities | Last updated: 28 Oct 2022
Migration and Demography

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The WorldPop project was initiated in 2013 to unite the continent-focussed AfriPop, AsiaPop and AmeriPop projects, with an aim of producing detailed and freely-available population distribution and composition maps for the whole of Central and South America, Africa and Asia. High resolution, contemporary data on human population distributions, their characteristics and changes over time are a prerequisite for the accurate measurement of the impacts of population growth, for monitoring changes and for planning interventions. WorldPop aims to meet these needs through the provision of detailed and open access spatial demographic datasets built using transparent approaches.

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Coordinators
University of Southampton
Geographic coverageAfricaAsiaAmerica
Project date
Originally Published | Last Updated

03 Oct 2018 | 28 Oct 2022

Knowledge service | MetadataMigration and Demography | Demography | Population
Related organisation(s)GeoData Institute, University of Southampton
Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET)open data
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