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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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| Project URL | |
| Coordinators | University of Southampton |
| Geographic coverage | AfricaAsiaAmerica |
| Project date | |
| Originally Published | Last Updated | 03 Oct 2018 | 28 Oct 2022 |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Migration and Demography | Demography | Population |
| Related organisation(s) | GeoData Institute, University of Southampton |
| Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET) | open data |
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