Population Explorer: Web-Services for Small Area Population Estimation

When a crisis occurs, the most important information is the estimate of how many people are affected.

This critical number can drive hundreds of millions of dollars in funding decisions, but is most often derived from best-guess estimates of national governments and relief workers.

Further, while responses to emergency situations need to happen immediately, estimates of populations impacted can take many months. Kimetrica developed Population Explorer for USAID's Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET).

The web-based service allows anyone with access to the internet to estimate human populations, including age and sex breakdowns, anywhere in the world.

Population Explorer has become a front-line tool in disaster management and response, allowing responders to quickly estimate populations affected by disaster and other natural and human caused crises.