The WorldPop was initiated in 2013 as population mapping project, in order to provide an open demographic dataset access for Africa, Asia and Central and South America.
This Population mapping project is created by collaboration of different organizations and institutions. Some of these are:
University Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
University of Southampton, UK
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, USA
University of Oxford, UK
University of Louisville, USA
UN FPA
World Bank
University of Wiscosin, USA