📖 The ACX 2025 Prediction Contest Is Open!

The Astral Codex Ten Prediction Contest is back with an expanded $10,000 prize pool! Test your forecasting skills across geopolitics, technology, economics, and more with questions curated by Scott Alexander. Make your predictions by January 31 to compete.

🔭 The Bridgewater x Metaculus Forecasting Contest Goes Global — Feb 3

For the second year, Metaculus is teaming up with Bridgewater Associates to host a competition featuring $25k in prizes and potential opportunities with the asset management firm — and this year, forecasters from around the globe can compete.

Start here to register for the February 3rd competition, warm up on practice questions, and learn about the separate Open and Undergraduate leaderboards.

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How many people will be living in liberal democracies in the world in the following years?

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108 forecasters

Make a Prediction

Yearresolution
Year25thmedian75th

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CDF

community
<500M
lower 25%
median
upper 75%
>2.5B
0.2%
991M
1.028B
1.081B
0.2%

What was the final result?1.05B

Community Baseline Score
117.8
Community Peer Score
21.7

Forecast Timeline

Authors:
RyanBeck
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Closes:
Scheduled resolution:
Forecasting Our World in Data
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Politics
2021-2025 Leaderboard
Our World in Data
Types of democracy

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