A new mapping method helps count refugee populations more accurately by designing automatic tailored sampling frame🌍
Using geospatial modelling techniques, the approach identifies where refugee populations are distributed - improving surveys and aid delivery.
Faster, cheaper, and more inclusive data for global challenges.
🌍 Population insight where it matters most.
Population Explorer combines high-resolution WorldPop data with an intuitive map interface to support humanitarian response and smarter planning - free for LMIC governments.
👉 https://www.worldpop.org/blog/how-population-explorer-turns-worldpop-open-data-into-action/
🚨 Children on the move are often statistically invisible, but new AI & data methods can help change that.
Watch our webinar to explore:
📊 Population modelling & geospatial data
📱 Digital mobility data (and its biases)
🌍 AI for mapping displacement
🎥 Watch now https://www.worldpop.org/webinars/
#DataForGood #AI #ChildRights #Migration #HumanitarianData #IDAC
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📊 How can digital trace data improve crisis response?
At Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week, WorldPop’s Dr Sarchil Qader discussed how signals from mobile phones and online platforms can help estimate population movement during emergencies - supporting faster, better-targeted aid.
Read the blog 👇https://www.worldpop.org/blog/using-digital-trace-data-to-understand-human-movement-in-crises/
#HumanitarianData #CrisisResponse #DataForGood #HumanitarianTech
How can open #geodata support better decisions in humanitarian response, infrastructure planning, and climate action?
In our latest blog post, we present five open datasets that support humanitarian aid, infrastructure planning, and climate research. Each dataset is free for everyone to explore. 🔍
🔗 https://buff.ly/XtrsABo
#OpenData #Geospatial #HumanitarianData #ClimateAction
📍Where people are right now matters in a crisis. WorldPop is turning anonymised social media data into real-time population insights for smarter aid. 🌍📊🚨
#HumanitarianData #PopulationMapping #DisasterResponse #GeospatialScience #SDGs #DataForGood
🌍 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#
Join WorldPop Research Fellow Dr Somnath Chaudhuri as he explores how high-resolution, open-access population datasets are transforming the way we understand and respond to human needs worldwide.
#DataForGood #PopulationData #Geospatial #OpenData #HumanitarianData
Accurate population data is essential for activities ranging from humanitarian response to climate adaptation, but accessing reliable and up-to-date information is often challenging. In these data-scarce settings, high-resolution population estimates can be produced using statistical models that combine geolocated survey data with geospatial datasets. WorldPop works to fill this gap by producing high-resolution, open-access population datasets. Based at the University of Southampton, the research group integrates census data, satellite imagery, and statistical and machine learning models to generate global population estimates by age and sex at a 100-meter spatial resolution. These datasets address major gaps in traditional demographic data, which are often outdated, incomplete, or unavailable especially in low- and middle-income countries. The resulting spatial databases are applied across multiple sectors, including disease modelling, disaster risk assessment, resource allocation, poverty mapping, and urban and environmental planning. By mapping healthcare access and population movements, WorldPop enables targeted interventions for vaccination, epidemic control and humanitarian response. A key component of the initiative involves collaboration with national statistical agencies, UN agencies and health organizations to build local analytical capacity and co-develop sustainable data systems. The project’s commitment to open data, transparent methodologies, and continuous user feedback ensures that outputs are reproducible and continuously improved. Through these efforts, WorldPop contributes to global goals of inclusive development by ensuring that every person, everywhere, is represented in population data.
📣Beta test our new global #population #data - 2015 to 2030
⬇️Now freely available to download ⬇️
https://www.worldpop.org/blog/beta-test-our-new-global-population-data-2015-to-2030/
🌍 Kontur's сontributions to the рumanitarian sector
Since 2020, Kontur has published over 500 datasets on the HDX (Humanitarian Data Exchange) platform! 📊✨ These resources are being utilized by humanitarian organizations around the globe, and we’re excited to share the usage statistics with you.
You can find them at https://data.humdata.org. If you're looking for something specific or have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected]! 📧🤝
Interested in learning more about MapSwipe's history and its contributions to the #geospatial data space? 🔍 Check out our #StoryMap here!
https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4ed670067e9647b5b2f23d107b6d36ea
#mapswipe #mapping #humanitarian #HumanitarianData #gis #osm #data #missingmaps
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