Several states have experienced drops in urban population numbers this past year. The interactive map produced by the U.S. Census Bureau shows how populations are shifting across the major cities and ...

The work has humanitarian applications, but it could also benefit Facebook’s commercial interests The work has humanitarian applications, but it could also benefit Facebook’s commercial interests is a ...

Hundreds of decisions—how to build roads, where to send medicine, how to plan for natural disasters—depend on knowing where people live. Over the past few decades, population maps have become powerful ...

Facebook has created highly detailed population maps to help health organizations, researchers and universities tackle disease outbreaks and plan public health campaigns. They focus on population ...

The map shows the location of the 307 rural areas analyzed in the study. The reported populations in the graphic were found to be underestimated by between 53 and 84%. Credit: Josias Láng-Ritter et.

The United State Census Bureau has released some interesting data about population shifts that occurred in 2021 due, in part, to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. First up, the Census Bureau’s data shows ...