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- September 18, 2026
The question bar’s badge now opens the kinds of question you can ask: yes or no, multiple choice, an A/B test, a scale, an amount, a ranking, an allocation, a comparison, each with an example that goes into the field. The kind you pick guides how the question is put and how the answer is laid out. An A/B test has a layout of its own: your alternatives side by side with the share choosing each and its interval, the lead in points, and whether the sample settles the order.
- September 18, 2026
A world of your own now starts from what you already have: upload past surveys, spreadsheets of numbers by segment, reports and briefs. The files are read, a plan proposes one layer per usable thing in them (what it is, which column or sentence it comes from, whether it varies by state, sex and age), and applying the plan lays your data onto the population. Nothing is invented and nothing is asked that your data does not answer; a survey on the world can then ask for the people your data describes.
- September 18, 2026
A survey in the Dashboard can now put your own options to the population: two to seven of them, each a name and, if you like, a picture (an ad, a pack, a logo, a screenshot). The population sees the pictures themselves and chooses; the results show your options as cards with the share choosing each, and the reasons in people’s own words as always.
- September 18, 2026
In the Dashboard you can make a world: the population plus your own layers. The first kind of layer is a survey you ran here: its answers become an attribute every profile the survey covered carries, by state, sex and age, so the next survey on that world can ask for the people who answered one way, as easily as for women in Texas. Layers from a survey file, a table of shares or a customer list come next.
- September 18, 2026
Create an account with an email and a password and open the Dashboard: a place of your own to write a survey, put it to the population with 100, 400 or 1,000 profiles, watch the interval settle and read the results, all kept under your name. The ask box on this site stays as it is, a free preview without an account. No verification mail and no password reset yet; the privacy page says what is stored and how.
- September 14, 2026
The simulation page now walks through the world model in its layers (public data, our own surveys as they arrive, and your own data on top, kept apart), the population’s own charts and every attribute in one tree, three people as the model reads them, a question by its kind, four audiences that are hard to reach any other way, and the product itself.
- September 12, 2026Names for the French, the Spanish and the British
Every profile in France, Spain and the United Kingdom now carries a given name drawn by sex and year of birth from its own country’s table (INSEE’s file of every name given since 1900, INE’s names by their bearers’ age, the ONS’s hundred most given names at ten-year intervals since 1904), and the French and the Spanish a surname from their national frequencies. A Martine born in 1955 and a Léa born in 2000, a José and a Hugo, a Susan and an Amelia: display names, no real person’s, as the American ones have been.
- September 12, 2026Qualifications by age in England and Wales
A profile’s highest qualification in the nine English regions and Wales now follows its age as well as its sex, from the census’s own table of qualification by sex by age: a 27-year-old Londoner and a 72-year-old have their own odds of a degree, where one share per region and sex stood for both before.
- September 12, 2026Scotland and Northern Ireland, from their censuses
The whole United Kingdom is built from its own censuses now. Every person in Scotland carries employment, highest qualification, marital status, whether a long-term condition limits their day-to-day activities, household size and the census’s own ethnic group from Scotland’s Census 2022, and every person in Northern Ireland the same six from its Census 2021, drawn by sex and age band as England and Wales have been since this morning. Ask about graduates in Scotland, unemployed adults in Northern Ireland or married women in Wales: the names resolve to their regions.
- September 12, 2026Ten times finer where the census lets us
The 38 countries whose own census feeds the population (the European Union, Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, England and Wales, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and India) now carry one profile per thousand residents, ten times what they had, beside the United States at one per hundred; the rest of the world stays at one per ten thousand. A German region, an Indian state or a Canadian province by age and education is read from thousands of profiles instead of hundreds. Every count still stands for the people it represents.
- September 12, 2026One profile for every hundred Americans
The American part of the population is ten times finer: 3.4 million profiles, one for every hundred residents, where one stood for a thousand before. Every state, county, age, race and occupation has ten times the profiles behind it, so a breakdown of a small group (nurses in Vermont, farmers over 65) is read from hundreds of people instead of a handful, and the intervals on American segments narrow. The rest of the world keeps one profile per ten thousand for now; every count still stands for the people it represents.
- September 12, 2026
An American profile’s given name now comes from its own state’s table of the names given to children born that year, from the Social Security Administration’s state files, so a Texan of 42 is a Maria more often than a Vermonter. Outside the countries with their own census, every adult of 15 and over in 200 countries now carries their schooling from the Wittgenstein Centre’s cells by age, where only those 25 and over did before: a 20-year-old in Kenya reads as someone with some secondary school or a diploma rather than as someone without a record.
- September 12, 2026
The nine answers of the World Risk Poll and eleven of the Global Flourishing Study, until now on adults outside the United States, are on every American adult too, from the surveys’ own American respondents by sex and age: how safe they feel against five years ago, whether climate change threatens the country, worry about violent crime and severe weather, whether the government cares, harm from crime, discrimination, how long the household could last without income; happiness, life satisfaction, a worthwhile life, peace, belonging, loneliness, worry about expenses, trust, depression, anxiety and volunteering. A question about Americans who feel less safe, or about lonely adults in Ohio, now has an answer.
- September 12, 2026
Every profile of the United States now carries a given name and a surname: the given name drawn by sex and year of birth from the Social Security Administration’s table of the names given to children born that year, the surname by race and Hispanic origin from the Census Bureau’s 2010 surname file. A reason in someone’s words now comes from Jennifer Miller, 42, Ohio rather than a woman of 42 in Ohio. No name is a real person’s: both tables count names, not people, and the name is drawn independently of everything else the profile carries. Profiles outside the United States stay unnamed until their country’s own name table is in.
- September 12, 2026What the household spends
Every American profile now carries what a household like its own spends a month, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Expenditure Survey: groceries, food away from home, housing, transport, health care, entertainment, apparel, cash contributions, and insurance and pensions, each in bands, drawn for the household’s own income and whether it owns or rents. Ask about households in Ohio spending more than $600 a month on groceries, or adults in California spending over $2,500 a month on housing.
- September 12, 2026How the world is doing
Every adult of 22 countries and Hong Kong now carries twelve answers from the Global Flourishing Study of 2024: how happy they usually feel, how satisfied with life, whether what they do feels worthwhile, being at peace, belonging in their country, loneliness, worry about monthly expenses, whether people in the country trust one another, attendance at religious services, feeling depressed or anxious in the past two weeks, and volunteering. Ask about lonely people in Kenya, adults in Brazil who are very happy, or adults in Nigeria who worry about meeting their monthly expenses.
- September 12, 2026A typical day
Every American adult now carries how a typical day is spent, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ time-use diaries: hours of sleep and the minutes on work, housework, caring for children, eating, socializing, television, reading, games and the computer, sport and exercise, religious activities, volunteering, shopping and travel, each in bands; the day is a random day of the year, weekends included. Ask about heavy television viewers in Ohio, daily exercisers in Colorado, or adults in Texas who sleep under six hours.
- September 12, 2026Hardship, safety at home, the measured body
In the states whose health survey asked, every American adult now carries whether they worried about running out of food, could not pay bills or utilities, lacked transport or lost work in the past year, how safe they consider their neighbourhood, whether they care for someone ill, whether a firearm is kept at home and loaded, marijuana in the past month, how often they drink soda, memory loss getting worse, and the count of adverse childhood experiences; where a state did not ask, the profile says nothing. From the national examination survey, every adult also carries a measured body-mass index and whether the waist is in the high-risk range. Ask about gun owners in Texas, food-insecure adults in Georgia, or caregivers in Ohio.
- September 12, 2026Money in depth
Every American adult now carries twenty-three more facts from the Census Bureau’s annual income supplement: poverty by the Supplemental Poverty Measure, the size of the employer and whether it offers health insurance, the earned income and child tax credits and the federal income tax paid, the filing status, a marketplace health plan, a professional licence, why those not working are not working, why those who moved last year moved, out-of-pocket medical spending, eight further sources of income from child support to dividends, WIC, free school lunches and the months on SNAP. Ask about small-business employees in Ohio, EITC recipients in Georgia, landlords in Florida, or adults in California who moved for a job.
- September 12, 2026Religion, the 2020 vote, the seven-point party
Every American adult now carries their religious affiliation and how they practise it (attendance, its importance, born-again, prayer), the party on the seven-point scale from strong Democrat to strong Republican, the vote of November 2020, how closely they follow the news, and for those who voted in 2024 whether the vote was cast in person or by mail and on election day or before. Each is drawn given what the profile already carries, so a strong Republican is a Republican and a weekly churchgoer has a church. Ask about Catholics in Ohio, evangelicals in Texas, weekly churchgoers in Georgia, or voters in Arizona who voted by mail.
- September 12, 2026Health in depth
Every American adult now carries forty-eight more answers from the National Health Interview Survey: thirteen conditions a doctor has told them of (COPD, arthritis, kidney and liver disease, a stroke, a heart attack, heart disease, dementia, depression, anxiety, cancer, hepatitis, Crohn’s), serious psychological distress and its treatment, how well they see, hear, walk, remember and communicate, sleep, exercise, vaping, COVID-19 and long COVID, four vaccines, a usual place of care, telehealth, a hospital stay, care put off or skipped for cost, emotional support, life satisfaction and paid sick leave. Ask about cancer survivors in Florida, workers in Texas without paid sick leave, or adults with long COVID in Ohio.
- September 12, 2026The home, the marriage, the devices
Every American profile now carries fifty-five more facts from its own census record: what its home is worth or what the rent is and what share of income that takes, the mortgage, the bills, the rooms and the decade the home was built, the smartphone, computer and tablet in the house, the household’s language, a second marriage, a veteran’s era, the hour it leaves for work. Four more published tables check them, state by state. Ask about renters in California paying more than 30% of their income in rent, households in Texas with a smartphone but no computer, or grandparents raising grandchildren in Georgia.
- September 12, 2026Education by age, worldwide
Outside the countries with their own census, education used to follow one share per country and sex, so a 70-year-old and a 25-year-old had the same odds of a degree. Every adult of 200 countries now draws their attainment by five-year age group from the Wittgenstein Centre’s estimates for 2025. Ask about graduates under 30 in Kenya or adults over 65 without schooling in Egypt.
- September 12, 2026One population
The United States and the rest of the world are one population now, not two: a question about Ohio, about Nigeria, or about both runs on the same table, where an American profile stands for 1,000 people and a profile elsewhere for 10,000, and every count, interval and sample weighs them so. Comparisons across the seam work like any other.
- September 12, 2026Telework, food, rent and loneliness
Every American adult now carries six answers from the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse survey of July 2026: days worked from home, whether the household has enough to eat, being behind on rent or the mortgage, how hard the usual bills are to pay, how often they feel lonely, and whether they trust federal statistics, each drawn by sex, age, race and education. Ask about employees in Texas who work from home or adults in Ohio who struggle with the bills.
- September 12, 2026How the world feels about risk
Every adult of 142 countries now carries nine answers from the World Risk Poll 2023: how safe they feel against five years ago, whether climate change threatens their country, worry about violent crime and severe weather, whether the government cares about them, harm from violent crime, discrimination for skin colour and for gender, and how long the household could last without income, each drawn by country, sex and age group. Ask about adults in Brazil very worried about violent crime, people around the world who feel less safe than five years ago, or households in Kenya that could not last a month without income.
- September 12, 2026India, from the census
Every person in India now carries employment, education, marital status and born abroad with the pattern of the 2011 census by state, sex and age, held at today’s national levels. Ask about unemployed adults in Bihar, college graduates in Kerala or married women in Tamil Nadu.
- September 12, 2026Argentina, from the census
Every Argentine in the population now carries employment, born abroad and household size drawn from the 2022 census by province, with the country’s own age and sex pattern of work inside each province. Ask about unemployed adults in Mendoza, immigrants in Buenos Aires City or adults in Buenos Aires province.
- September 12, 2026Italy, from the census
Every Italian in the population now carries employment, education and household size drawn from the 2021 census by province, sex and age, for all 107 provinces. Ask about college graduates in Milan, unemployed adults in Naples or women over 65 in Palermo.
- September 12, 2026Brazil, from the census
Every Brazilian in the population now carries employment, schooling, household size and the census’s own colour or race (branca, preta, parda, amarela, indígena), drawn from the 2022 census by federal unit, sex and age. Ask about Black adults in Bahia, college graduates in São Paulo or unemployed adults in Pernambuco.
- September 12, 2026Mexico, from the census
Every Mexican in the population now carries employment, schooling, whether they speak an indigenous language and the census’s Afro-Mexican self-identification, drawn from the 2020 census by state and sex. Ask about Afro-Mexican adults in Guerrero, unemployed adults in Chiapas or speakers of an indigenous language in Oaxaca.
- September 12, 2026Australia, from the census
Every Australian in the population now carries employment, qualification, household size, whether they were born overseas and the census’s Indigenous status, drawn from five 2021 census tables by state, sex and age. Ask about Indigenous adults in Queensland, people born overseas in New South Wales or graduates in Victoria.
- September 12, 2026Canada, from the census
Every Canadian in the population now carries employment, education, marital status, household size, whether they immigrated and the census’s own visible-minority group, drawn from six 2021 census tables by province, gender and age. Ask about South Asian adults in Ontario, immigrants in Quebec or married women in Alberta.
- September 12, 2026Europe, from the census
Every person in 251 regions of the European Union, Norway, Switzerland and Iceland now carries employment, education, marital status and whether they were born abroad from the 2021 census round, drawn by region, sex and age from Eurostat’s census hub, in place of the national rates used before. Ask about married adults in Bavaria, graduates in Andalucía or people born abroad in Île-de-France.
- September 12, 2026England and Wales, from the census
The first country beyond the United States built from its own census: every person in the nine English regions and Wales now carries employment, highest qualification, marital status, disability, household size and the census’s own ethnic group, drawn from the 2021 census cells by region, sex and age. Ask about Black Caribbean adults in London or Pakistani women in Birmingham; Scotland and Northern Ireland follow with their own tables.
- September 12, 2026Cities, worldwide
In the global population, urban people outside Europe and the United States now live in a named city or town: every place of 15,000 or more, drawn within their state or province in proportion to the cities’ populations. Ask about adults in Lagos, women in Guangzhou or Nairobi’s smokers; the 5,859 cities of 100,000 or more can be named in a question, and every profile’s persona says where it lives.
- September 12, 2026Households
Every US profile now says who it is in its household (the householder, a spouse or partner, a child, a parent, another relative) and carries the householder’s spouse or partner from the same record: their age, sex, education and work, so a couple in a profile is two people who go together. Ask about households, not only people: how many households in Ohio rent, whether renting households in Texas would pay for solar panels.
- September 11, 2026Every attribute has a system name
Each attribute of a profile now has one name that says where it sits: place.admin1, person.age, work.commute.mode, health.disability.hearing. The population page shows the name under every attribute, and a sample or an export carries it as the column name, so what you read on the page is what you get in the file.
- September 11, 2026Every country’s states and provinces
In the global population, nearly nine in ten people now live in a named state, province or region of their country: 2,855 first-level divisions in 187 countries, matched to WorldPop’s 2025 population grids. Ask about adults in Uttar Pradesh, Guangdong or Punjab, Pakistan; every profile says where its person lives. Europe keeps its regions and the United States its states and counties.
- September 8, 2026
The population and methodology pages are one page now, in seven steps with the population's own numbers: everyone by age and sex, a degree share on the map of the states, one profile as the model reads it, employment by age for women and men, every held-out table against what sampling gives, how far each kind of question sits from real surveys, the markets, and an estimate settling batch by batch.
- September 8, 2026Every answer has an address
An answer now lives at the question itself — census.world/q/would-you-support-a-four-day-work-week-at-the-same-pay — and the page opens at once, whether you come from a link, a search or the question box. Ask something already answered and you get its page straight away, without asking the population again.
- September 7, 2026A summary at the top of every answer
When a question finishes, the answer now opens with a reading of it in words: what the people answered, whether the lead is real, which groups sit farthest apart, whether the estimate had stopped moving by the end of the sample, and what it cannot tell you. Written from the whole result, and shown above the charts it points to.
- September 7, 2026Answers that stay
Every answer is kept again: the address of a free preview works when you come back to it, and the waitlist takes names. For a day after the site moved to the cloud, an answer lived only as long as the page that asked it.
- September 6, 2026Always on
The population now answers from the cloud, not from one machine: the site no longer goes quiet when that machine sleeps. The interval still narrows as people answer, streamed from the engine as each batch comes in.
- September 6, 2026
Every US adult now carries a party (Democrat, Republican, independent or other), a place on the liberal-to-conservative scale and, for those who voted, who they voted for for President in November 2024, from the Cooperative Election Study, matched to each state. Ask about Republicans in Ohio, moderates in Arizona or Trump voters in Michigan directly.
- September 6, 2026
In the global population every person now carries whether they were born in another country, by their country's share of international migrants. Ask about immigrants in Germany or the Gulf directly.
- September 6, 2026
In the global population every person now lives in an urban or a rural area, by their country's urban share. Ask about urban adults in Nigeria or rural women in Kenya.
- September 6, 2026
In the global population, every person in 37 European countries now lives in one of 296 regions, matched to Eurostat's counts by age and sex. Ask about adults in Oberbayern, Andalucía or Île-de-France directly.
- September 6, 2026
Every US adult now carries three measures from the national health examination: high cholesterol, an elevated blood pressure reading, and blood sugar in the normal, prediabetes or diabetes range. Ask about adults with high cholesterol directly.
- September 6, 2026A real map
Every answer with enough places now carries a map you can pan and zoom, coloured by the answer state by state (or country by country), with the interval on hover.
- September 6, 2026
Every profile now lives in a county as well as a state, matched to the Census Bureau's 2025 county estimates. Ask about Harris County, Orleans Parish or Cook County directly.
- September 6, 2026
Every employed adult now carries whether they belong to a union and whether they have a retirement plan through work, and every adult whether the household received SNAP, energy assistance or a housing subsidy, from the Current Population Survey's annual supplement. Ask about union members or households on SNAP directly.
- September 6, 2026A front page that explains
Below the question box the page now says what this is, how an answer is made and where it goes, in plain words; the counters and the sample answer are gone, and the waitlist asks only for an email.
- September 6, 2026census.world is live
The site is public at census.world: ask a question and read its answer.
- September 6, 2026Rankings, checked
When a question asks people to rank options, the answer now says how far simulated first and last choices sat from real people's on a ranking question from the General Social Survey, the way other kinds of question already do. Allocations are the one kind still unchecked, and the answer says so.
- September 5, 2026census.world
The site has its name: census.world. A new front page under it, with how the population is built, checked and asked in three steps with their numbers, an answer as it looks, and the questions already asked. Not the census, and not affiliated with any government; a synthetic population built from public statistics.
- September 5, 2026
Every household now carries the ages of its children, so you can ask parents of teenagers directly. The top bar works on a phone. The state-by-state card sketches the states in their places.
- September 5, 2026
The questions shown on the front page are now a curated set. Getting in touch has its own page, reached from the foot of every answer. The filter understands business owners, homeowners, renters and commuters. A comparison with other synthetic-research products lives at its own address.
- September 5, 2026
A privacy page that says exactly what is kept (no cookies, no tracking, your email goes nowhere else), terms that say what an answer is and is not, both linked from every page. Error pages in our voice. A shared link now shows a card. The free sample no longer offers more profiles for nothing; more goes through the form.
- September 5, 2026Titles, and a page for lost addresses
Every page now has its own title, every answer carries its question in the tab, and an address that does not exist gets a page in our own words with the way back.
- September 5, 2026A face for every voice
Every person quoted on an answer page now has a small drawn orb beside their words: two soft tones, a hand-drawn face and a scribble of hair, a woman or a man at a glance, the same every time for the same person, and never anyone real.
- September 5, 2026The demand curve, and what a full run adds
Amount questions now show the share who would pay at least each price and where price times share peaks. Every finished answer also shows what the full report adds: demand by segment, market size, every breakdown, state by state, the kinds of people in the answer, every reason, and more, each a step away through the form.
- September 5, 2026Ask us to run it
Every finished answer now ends with a short form: tell us what you want to run on the whole population, or on your own segments, and we reply within a day. There is no price list to read first.
- September 5, 2026
The population page lists every attribute as a tree: a family, an attribute, what sits under it, and at the bottom the values with their share of the population, live. It goes deeper where there is data and stops where there is not.
- September 5, 2026
Whether a person volunteered, gave to charity, belongs to a group, attended a public meeting, contacted a public official or talks politics most weeks, from the Census Bureau's civic engagement supplement and fitted to each state. Ask about volunteers in Ohio or donors in Texas.
- September 4, 2026
Every US citizen 18 and over now carries whether they voted in November 2024 and whether they are registered, drawn by state, sex and age from the Census Bureau's voting supplement. Ask about voters, non-voters or registered voters in any state.
- September 4, 2026Who is being asked, in the progress tray
The tray under the question bar now names the population and its size before the sample count, since the population is filtered first and only then asked.
- September 4, 2026
Whether someone moved in the past year, and whether a woman had a child in the past year, are now validated against published tables in every state.
- September 4, 2026A cleaner answer headline
The figure and what it means sit on one line in a card, with the 95% interval drawn beneath as a band and a dot on the answer's own scale. The accuracy note for the kind of question now lives only under How this was computed.
- September 4, 2026
Whether someone works for a private company, a nonprofit, local, state or federal government, or for themselves, and how long their commute takes, are now validated against published tables in every state.
- September 4, 2026
Family income against the poverty line, carried from the survey record and checked per state against the published table. Ask about adults below the poverty line, or low-income families, in any state.
- September 4, 2026Small fixes on the front page
The Solutions menu no longer closes while the pointer crosses to it, the source logos fill their row, headings lost their trailing periods and wrap in balance, and the foot of the page is the waitlist alone.
- September 4, 2026
Market research, consumer brands, media, policy, academic research, AI builders and health each have a page: what you ask, what you get, and questions to start with. The Solutions menu opens them.
- September 4, 2026
How the population is built and checked, what an answer contains, three ways to get an answer, and the known methods it all stands on, on one page.
- September 4, 2026Amounts answer less roundly
When a question asks for a number or a point on a scale, each person is now asked for the number they would actually report rather than the typical one. On the survey items used to check amounts, answers moved closer to real people's by nine points.
- September 4, 2026
Smoking, drinking, self-rated health, anxiety and depression, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, weight category, sleep and exercise, drawn from national health surveys and fitted to each state. Ask about adults with diabetes in Texas, or smokers in West Virginia.
- September 4, 2026Why they answered this way
Every finished answer now carries a few of the people asked explaining their answer in their own words, spread across the answers, with a short reading of what drives the split.
- September 4, 2026Rankings, allocations and comparisons
Ask people to rank options, to split a fixed total across them, or to compare two populations in one question. Each kind has its own layout, and comparisons show both sides, the difference with its interval, and both samples.
- September 4, 2026Accuracy per kind of question
Each answer says how far its kind of question tends to sit from real survey answers, checked against the General Social Survey, and says plainly when a kind has not been checked yet. Amounts are the weakest kind, and the page says so.
- September 4, 2026Parents as a population
Adults living with their own children can be asked directly: "Would parents in Texas support a ban on phones in schools?"
- September 4, 2026Language spoken at home, checked
The language people speak at home and how well they speak English are now validated against published tables in almost every state.
- September 4, 2026
Who you are asking: every attribute family with its source and an example question, and what is not here yet.
- September 4, 2026Household attributes on every person
Household size and composition, whether children live at home, tenure, vehicles and internet at home, carried on every US profile from the survey record.
- September 3, 2026The synthetic United States
Every state, every single year of age, sex, race and Hispanic origin matched to the Census Bureau's 2025 estimates; education, work, income, family, citizenship, disability and insurance from the American Community Survey, checked against tables the build never saw.