Research Teams

Two teams of researchers have had primary responsibility for the creation of this database. Those teams are based in the Department of Demography of the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and in the Data Laboratory of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR). The French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) has also supported the further development of the database in recent years.

Vladimir Shkolnikov (MPIDR) leads the team of researchers at Max Planck and is Director of the project. Magali Barbieri (UCB and INED) heads the team at Berkeley and is Associate Director of the project. The Founding Director, John Wilmoth (United Nations and formerly UCB), remains affiliated with the project in an advisory capacity only.

Dmitri Jdanov (MPIDR), Kirill Andreev, and Carl Boe (UCB) wrote the core computer programs that compute population estimates, death rates and life tables. Eugeny Soroko, Dmitri Jdanov (MPIDR), and Mary Anderson (UCB) created the current web application. Beate Danielsen provided programming assistance for checking data quality.

The following individuals are currently in charge of at least one country included in the HMD:

• Magali Barbieri (UCB): France, Japan, and the United States
• Gabriel Borges (UCB): Iceland
• Inna Danilova/Marilla Nepomuceno (MPIDR): Austria, Belarus, Israel, Russia, and Ukraine
• Denys Dukhovnov (UCB): Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland
• Dana Glei (UCB): Chile, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Republic of Korea
• Domantas Jasilionis (MPIDR): England & Wales, Estonia, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Poland, and Scotland
• Isabella Marinetti (MPIDR): Germany
• Laszlo Nemeth (MPIDR): Czechia, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Slovak Republic, and Slovenia
• Sergey Timonin (MPIDR): Bulgaria