The Population Project has temporarily suspended its activities. Our database of about 700 million and 200 million dead remains freely accessible. Read more.
The Population Project founder's thoughts
Updates, thoughts, and reflections from the Population Project team
Pausing the Population Project
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Antoine Bello · April 7, 2025
I have decided to put the Population Project on standby. Our website will remain up and running but we’re halting our efforts to collect and process new lists until further notice.
Read more →Reimporting US records
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Antoine Bello · April 7, 2025
Three months ago, realizing we had way too many duplicates in our database, we stopped importing lists to take a closer look at our algorithms. We now believe we have fixed the most glaring problems. After wiping out the entire database, we’ve started reimporting US records.
Read more →600 million records
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Antoine Bello · September 3, 2024
The Population Project has crossed the 600m barrier!
Read more →A review of the past year
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Antoine Bello · August 8, 2024
A review of the past twelve months at the Population Project
Read more →When we have too many records...
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Antoine Bello · April 29, 2024
Having too many records can be the sign of flaws in our processes.
Read more →Why is the website’s counter sometimes down?
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Antoine Bello · December 23, 2023
The three reasons the Population Project's counter can be down?
Read more →The logic behind Roamy
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Antoine Bello · November 7, 2023
The Population Project has embarked on the creation of a list-searching bot called Roamy.
Read more →Our website is fully functional. Now what?
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Antoine Bello · October 21, 2023
Our website is fully functional. What are our new priorities?
Read more →We're bringing new functionalities to the Population Project
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Antoine Bello · September 27, 2023
Read more →Populating the United States of America
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Antoine Bello · June 6, 2021
How we quickly acquired 70% of the US population.
Read more →Populating France
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Antoine Bello · June 10, 2021
Exam results are king in France.
Read more →Where we stand - July 2021
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Antoine Bello · July 12, 2021
We owe it to ourselves and to our volunteers to honestly review the good and the not so good if we want to have a shot at executing our gigantic task.
Read more →It has been a busy summer
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Antoine Bello · September 19, 2021
Read more →Memo on the Population Project's database structure
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Antoine Bello · October 6, 2021
A not-too-technical explanation on how the Population Project's database will be structured.
Read more →The little engine that could
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Antoine Bello · December 8, 2021
Read more →Time is on our side
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Antoine Bello · March 4, 2022
Read more →Why The Population Project?
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Antoine Bello · August 2, 2022
Read more →It’s a historic day: our site is up!
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Antoine Bello · October 6, 2022
Read more →First article about the Population Project in the French media
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Antoine Bello · November 3, 2022
Read more →They say "Learn from your mistakes"
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Antoine Bello · January 9, 2023
Read more →A day at the Population Project: Brazilian names
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Antoine Bello · February 9, 2023
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