Geography in Practice: mapping population distributions, demographics and dynamics with WorldPop

Accurate, timely and detailed data on human populations and their characteristics are needed to support equitable and evidence-based decision making, monitor progress towards development goals, and assess impacts of natural disasters, conflict and climate change.

Unfortunately, recent, reliable data at small area scales on population distributions, demographics and dynamics can be lacking in many settings around the World. 

Population and housing censuses are typically conducted only once a decade, registries can be incomplete and inaccurate and household surveys provide a broad snapshot. The advent of detailed and timely data from satellites and mobile phones however, as well as improvements in computing power and algorithms to extract information from them, has provided opportunities to complement traditional demographic data sources.  

 In this webinar, learn more about the work of WorldPop, highlighting how geospatial data integration, AI and modelling approaches can produce high resolution and timely data on populations in resource poor settings, and how these are co-developed with governments and international agencies to plan vaccination campaigns, respond to disasters and update national statistics.

Booking information

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