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POPL Acceptance Rate and Submission Statistics

ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages is tracked by CS Conf Stats as a PL conference. The dataset covers 48 events from 1973-2025.

POPL 2025 accepted 79 papers out of 298 submissions, for an acceptance rate of 26.5%.

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Latest Acceptance Rate
26.5%
2025: 79 accepted / 298 submitted
Years Covered
48
1973-2025
Discipline
PL
Programming Languages, Programming Systems, Formal Methods & Theory

Yearly Statistics

Year Location Accepted Submitted Acceptance Rate Second Track Note
2025 Denver, USA 79 298 26.5%
2024 London, UK 93 314 29.6%
2023 Boston, USA 74 275 26.9%
2022 Philadelphia, USA 65 286 22.7%
2021 Online, Online 61 258 23.6%
2020 New Orleans, USA 68 247 27.5%
2019 Cascais, Portugal 77 267 28.8%
2018 Los Angeles, California, USA 66 271 24.4%
2017 Paris, France 64 282 22.7%
2016 St. Petersburg, USA 59 252 23.4%
2015 Mumbai, India 52 227 22.9%
2014 San Diego, California, USA 51 220 23.2%
2013 Rome, Italy 43 238 18.1%
2012 Philadelphia, USA 44 205 21.5%
2011 Austin, USA 49 209 23.4%
2010 Madrid, Spain 39 207 18.8%
2009 Savannah, USA 36 160 22.5%
2008 San Francisco, California, USA 35 212 16.5%
2007 Nice, France 36 198 18.2%
2006 Charleston, USA 33 167 19.8%
2005 Long Beach, California, USA 31 170 18.2%
2004 Venice, Italy 29 176 16.5%
2003 New Orleans, USA 24 126 19.0%
2002 Portland, USA 28 128 21.9%
2001 London, UK 24 126 19.0%
2000 Boston, USA 30 151 19.9%
1999 San Antonio, USA 24 136 17.6%
1998 San Diego, California, USA 32 175 18.3%
1997 Paris, France 36 225 16.0%
1996 St. Petersburg, USA 34 148 23.0%
1994 Portland, USA 39 173 22.5%
1993 Charleston, USA 39 199 19.6%
1992 Albuquerque, USA 30 204 14.7%
1991 Orlando, USA 31 152 20.4%
1990 San Francisco, California, USA 31 185 16.8%
1989 Austin, USA 30 191 15.7%
1988 San Diego, California, USA 28 177 15.8%
1987 Munich, Germany 29 108 26.9%
1986 St. Petersburg, USA 30 165 18.2%
1983 Austin, USA 28 170 16.5%
1982 Albuquerque, USA 38 121 31.4%
1981 Williamsburg, USA 24 121 19.8%
1979 San Antonio, USA 27 146 18.5%
1978 Tucson, USA 27 135 20.0%
1977 Los Angeles, California, USA 25 105 23.8%
1976 Atlanta, USA 20 90 22.2%
1975 Palo Alto, California, USA 23 100 23.0% over 100
1973 Boston, USA 22 100 22.0% over 100

Conference Details

Full Title
ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages
Main Discipline
Programming Languages, Programming Systems, Formal Methods & Theory
Other Topics
Language Design, Program Semantics, Implementation Techniques, Type Systems, Program Verification & Analysis
Parent Organization
ACM SISGPLAN (main), and SIGACT and SIGLOG
Notes
Since 2018, the proceedings are published in PACMPL.

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