Last updated: September 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-09
#283,515
AI visibility: Grade D
59
SEO health: Latest audit
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Visits
118
per month, estimated
Keywords
278
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
118 organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
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popline.org Company Profile
POPLINE has quietly become the go-to destination for anyone who needs reliable, peer-reviewed research on population, family planning, and reproductive health. Built over decades by librarians and subject specialists, the platform aggregates journal articles, reports, and grey literature that would otherwise remain scattered across dozens of databases. Researchers at universities, ministries of health, and internatio…
Founded in 1973 (about 53 years ago), POPLINE is based in Baltimore, United States. Its workforce is listed as between 11 and 50 employees. Its profile files it under Research, Science & Deep Tech, with further tags for Education & Training, Population Research and Academic Databases. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Connecting researchers with the world’s largest population science literature collection".
- Sector
- Research, Science & Deep Tech
- Headquarters
- Baltimore, United States
- Founded
- 1973
- Employees
- 11-50
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
popline.org Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- POPLINE (Research, Science & Deep Tech) is ranked #283,515 worldwide in our September 2026 domain ranking, down 15,367 places from #268,148 in August 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 118 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 278 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 59 out of 100 (grade D), with a published llms.txt of 77 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| September 2026 | #283,515 | ▼ 15,367 |
| August 2026 | #268,148 | ▼ 165 |
| July 2026 | #267,983 | ▲ 81,308 |
| June 2026 | #349,291 | — |
| May 2026 | #349,291 | ▲ 71,491 |
| April 2026 | #420,782 | ▼ 61,672 |
| March 2026 | #359,110 | ▲ 7,560 |
| February 2026 | #366,670 | — |
What this company does
POPLINE has quietly become the go-to destination for anyone who needs reliable, peer-reviewed research on population, family planning, and reproductive health. Built over decades by librarians and subject specialists, the platform aggregates journal articles, reports, and grey literature that would otherwise remain scattered across dozens of databases. Researchers at universities, ministries of health, and internatio…
popline.org Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send popline.org an estimated 118 visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 118 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 278 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 0.4 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
118
Latest estimate
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Organic visits
118
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
0
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Organic vs paid
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popline.org AI Visibility
popline.org scores 59 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, grade D. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt. The biggest gap is SEO health, at 0 of 20 points (0/100), worth 20 points if closed. It also loses points on Crawlability (0/10), Company profile (19/25) and Structured data (0/5).
Grade D
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Present
6/8 core fields
0/100
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popline.org LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on popline.org runs to 77 lines (5,442 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in May 2026. It introduces the site as "POPLINE - Population Information Online". It tells AI engines the business works in Research, Science & Deep Tech; Education & Training; and Health Information Services. It describes 4 products, with prices such as POPLINE Core Database at Free for academic use and POPLINE Training Modules at Free. Services it lists include Custom Literature Searches, Controlled Vocabulary Consulting and Repository Integration Support. The audience it names is Researchers, librarians, public health professionals, aged 25-65 (Global). Technologies it mentions include PHP, MySQL and Apache. The keywords it claims start with "population research", "reproductive health", "family planning" and "demography".
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AI engines can read it
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Size
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Sections
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Updated May 16, 2026
What the file says
# POPLINE - Population Information Online ## About POPLINE has quietly become the go-to destination for anyone who needs reliable, peer-reviewed research on population, family planning, and reproductive health. Built over decades by librarians and subject specialists, the platform aggregates journal articles, reports, and grey literature that would otherwise remain scattered across dozens of databases. Researchers at universities, ministries of health, and international NGOs rely on its carefully curated indexing to locate studies that directly influence policy and program design. Because the collection spans more than fifty years, users can trace how ideas about fertility, migration, and maternal care have evolved without jumping between multiple archives. The interface stays deliberately simple so that field workers in low-bandwidth settings can still run precise searches and download PDFs. Partnerships with medical libraries in Puerto Rico and elsewhere have added Spanish-language content that is often missing from mainstream indexes. POPLINE’s staff continuously scan new publications, update records, and remove outdated citations so the database stays current without requiring users to manage alerts themselves. Funding has come from a mix of foundation grants and institutional subscriptions rather than venture capital, keeping the service independent and focused on public-
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- POPLINE Core DatabaseFree for academic use
- POPLINE Institutional LicenseContact for pricing
- POPLINE Training ModulesFree
- POPLINE API AccessContact for pricing
Services it tells AI about
- Custom Literature SearchesContact for pricing
- Controlled Vocabulary ConsultingContact for pricing
- Repository Integration SupportContact for pricing
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Researchers, librarians, public health professionals · 25-65 · Global
Company type
Private
popline.org Organic Keywords
Google lists popline.org for about 278 keywords, which together bring an estimated 118 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
278
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
118
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
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popline.org SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of popline.org scored 0 out of 100 overall. The audit makes 8 recommendations in all.
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popline.org Competitors and Alternatives
POPLINE's company profile names PubMed, Google Scholar, ResearchGate and Scopus as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds scholar.google.com, webofscience.com and jstor.org. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are yuegongyutu.com, dof.gov.ph, seamly-app.com and realite-virtuelle.com.
popline.org Traffic by Country
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