The Population Project
Two years ago, I turned 50. After a successful career as an entrepreneur, a business angel and a novelist, I set out to start a philanthropic venture under the following constraints: - it had to be global. - it had to be beautiful (in my eyes, at least). - it had to be technology and stats driven. I decided I would try to list the full name and date of birth of all humans alive. While some may find the concept pointless, I immediately knew I had struck gold: - it was global and incredibly hard. - it had an almost artistic quality to it, like an ever-changing installation. - as a libertarian,…
The Population Project launched on August 7, 2023 with 7 votes, #1,752 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
What it does
The Population Project is a nonprofit organization, whose goal is to record the full name and date of birth of all living humans. Find information about any person in recent history, living or dead, by searching for their name and country of birth.
The Population Project was a US-based non-profit whose mission was to list the full name and date of birth of all humans alive. It was started in 2021 and shut down in 2025. We made the choice to keep the site as is, except for all search functions which werefrom thepopulationproject.org
In the maker’s words, at launch
Two years ago, I turned 50. After a successful career as an entrepreneur, a business angel and a novelist, I set out to start a philanthropic venture under the following constraints: - it had to be global. - it had to be beautiful (in my eyes, at least). - it had to be technology and stats driven. I decided I would…
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