Governments, international bodies and researchers rely on global population data for resource allocation and infrastructure planning to disease epidemiology and disaster risk management. In a study ...

The map shows the location of the 307 rural areas analysed in the study. The reported populations in the graphic were found to be underestimated by between 53 and 84 percent. Global population ...

1 December 2025 – Our world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, according to UN DESA’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025: ...

Healthcare systems worldwide are facing unprecedented pressure, from the rise in chronic diseases and aging populations to fragmented healthcare and over-stretched resources. The result? Delayed, ...

Today’s health care leaders are awash in data. There’s no shortage of organizations collecting, structuring, and licensing massive real-world data sets, each touting millions of de-identified “patient ...

The data contained continued alarming trends in birthrates and some surprising regions that are gaining population.

Andrew J Tatem works for the University of Southampton, and is Director of WorldPop. His research on mapping populations has been funded by donors such as the Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, GAVI.

"With births and deaths remaining relatively stable compared to the prior year, the ‌sharp decline in net international ...