Updates
Updates: How This Project Evolves
The public record changes, and this dashboard changes with it. This page logs what shipped, when it shipped, and what we are pursuing next.
Soft beta
The dashboard opened to the public on 17 August 2026 as an early, beta release, and it is being built in the open. Pages change week to week, corrections ship as dated entries in the changelog below, and while the product launches some Pro features, including the free CSV downloads on country pages, are open to everyone. If something looks wrong, tell us.
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What We're Pursuing Now
The research didn't stop at what governments volunteer. Where a country plausibly holds US-disaggregated data but doesn't publish it, we file formal public-records requests with the relevant authorities.
Requests returned
Authorities in Guatemala, Argentina, and Costa Rica have released census tabulations, resident-stock counts, and naturalization records on formal request, data that exists nowhere on the open web. Returns are integrated into the country pages as they are verified.
Requests pending
Further requests are pending with authorities across the Americas, Africa, and Asia, including resident-stock, naturalization, and outflow series no country in the region publishes openly. Pages update as responses land.
Countries to come
The dashboard covers the 99 countries researched to date. Jurisdictions with meaningful US-disaggregated records are assessed for future research rounds, and you can make the case for one.
Know a dataset we missed, or a country we should add? The Contact page has a lane for exactly that, submissions that check out ship with the next data update.
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Changelog
Where the project has been: from a Western European baseline in January to 99 countries and a live public-records program.
The dashboard opens to the public
›17 August: every country page, the Global View, Rankings and the Data Visibility Index are now open to everyone, free to read, no account required. The full annual series for each country remains available on request.
›24 and 25 August: country pages now open with a plain-language answer, and every headline figure carries the year its source published it. Each country's research findings and publishing record sit on the page itself, with known discrepancies stated rather than smoothed.
›25 August: country search is available from every dashboard page, and comparability labels are spelled out in words.
A first version of the dashboard, in review
›A first working version of the dashboard comes together: country pages, the Global View, Rankings and the Data Visibility Index, in internal review through the summer ahead of a public release.
›A US Government Data page is drafted: how many Americans live abroad according to the US government itself, and why this project counts from the receiving countries.
›First releases from the public-records program are integrated. Guatemala's profile now carries census and registry data released on formal request.
The full research is compiled and audited
›All 99 country chapters are complete, with four featured analyses, a glossary, and a country-by-country sources directory.
›Every chapter is verified against its public sources. Australia, India, and Kenya receive upgraded datasets as a result.
›The public-records program scales up, with formal information requests filed with authorities in nine jurisdictions across the Americas, Africa, and Asia.
From Europe to the world
›Research expands beyond Europe. The Americas, Africa, Asia, and Oceania are researched country by country, in local languages, to the same template.
›Every country is graded on the Data Visibility Index: five kinds of official publication, scored 0 to 5, so a thin public record is documented rather than papered over.
›A proof of concept in Guatemala shows that a tightly scoped public-records request can return disaggregated administrative data within days. That is the model the records program now follows.
It starts with Western Europe
›The project begins where the data is best: a Eurostat-anchored baseline of US-national populations across Western Europe, covering first residence permits by reason, population stocks, and naturalizations on one harmonized classification.
›The discipline that defines every later page is set here: counted, not modeled, every figure from a named government source, the caveat in front of the number.
Research is credited to AER as a body of work. Data corrections ship with dated updates. The current data layer is dated June 10, 2026.
The full series, every year, every country
The public view shows a limited year window for each series. Researchers and journalists can request access to the complete annual record for every country in the project.
© 2026, American Emigration Revue. Every figure from a named official source.