Cause Area: Effective Altruism Surveys
EA Survey 2019: Donation Data
EAs in the survey reported total donations of $16.1M USD in 2018. The median annual donation in 2018 was $683.92. The median ann...
EA Survey 2019: Geographic Distribution of EAs
74% of EAs in the survey currently live in the same set of 5 high-income English-speaking western countries as in 2018. The shar...
EA Survey 2019: Careers and Skills
The most popular career paths that effective altruists in the survey (EAs) plan to follow are in earning to give roles (38%) and...
EA Survey 2019: Cause Prioritization
Global Poverty remains the most popular single cause in our sample as a whole. When pressed to choose only one of the traditiona...
EA Survey 2019: Community Demographics & Characteristics
This is the first in a series analysing the results of the 2019 EA Survey. We collected 2,513 valid responses from EAs in the su...
Local EA group organizers survey 2019
We surveyed 176 local EA groups, from over 40 different countries, including 66 student groups, 78 city groups and 21 national g...
Is EA growing? EA growth metrics for 2018
Is EA growing? Rather than speculating from anecdotes, I decided to collect some data. This is a continuation of the analysis st...
EA Survey 2018: How long do EAs stay in EA?
Not everyone who joins the effective altruism community stays around forever. Some people value drift, some people leave altoget...
EA Survey 2018: Geographic Differences in EA
In this post we explore geographic differences in EA across the globe. A plurality of respondents reported being located in the ...
EA Survey 2018: Where People First Hear About EA and Influences on Involvement
In this post we explore how people first hear about Effective Altruism, and influences on people’s involvement in EA.
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