“EA Survey 2024: Geography” by Jamie E, David_Moss

Author: EA Forum Team ([email protected])
Published: Mon 04 Aug 2025
Episode Link: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/fpn6MZTShaGLZqopo/ea-survey-2024-geography

Summary

Countries
- The USA (34.4%) and the UK (13.5%) remain the countries with the largest proportions of EA respondents. We observed that 32% of respondents came from Europe (excluding the UK), while 20% came from the rest of the world. In previous years, we observed a decline in the percentage of respondents from these countries. This trend seems like it might have decreased or plateaued since 2022.
- This year, for the first time, we looked at EAs’ countries of origin as well as their current countries of residence. In absolute terms, we see large flows into the USA and UK, but Switzerland shows by far the highest relative level of in-flows, with 62% of respondents having a different country of origin.
Cities
- This year, London was the city with the most respondents (6.7%), followed by the SF Bay Area (5.7%), DC (3.8%) and NYC (3.3%). Interestingly [...]

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Outline:

(00:12) Summary

(02:59) Totals per country

(04:22) Changes over time

(04:48) Movement between countries

(06:18) Totals per city

(08:15) Gender

(09:19) Race

(12:07) Age and time in the EA community

(15:15) Student status

(16:18) Engagement