World Population
Real-time tracking of humanity's growth across the planet
Current World Population
8,189,700,000
+0.85% / year
Source: UN DESA 2024 Revision
Births this year
0
~140 million / year
Births today
0
~385,000 / day
Deaths this year
0
~57 million / year
Deaths today
0
~156,000 / day
Net population growth today
0
~229,000 / day
Environment
Forests, emissions, and the health of our planet
Forest lost this year (hectares)
0
~5 million ha / year net loss
Source: FAO Global Forest Assessment 2020
CO₂ emissions this year (tons)
0
~36.8 billion tons / year
CO₂ today (tons)
0
~100 million tons / day
Land lost to desertification (ha, this year)
0
~12 million ha / year
Toxic chemicals released (tons, this year)
0
~8 million tons / year
Energy
Global energy consumption, fossil fuels, and renewables
Energy used today (MWh)
0
+2.1% / year growth
Source: BP Statistical Review, IEA
Oil pumped today (barrels)
0
~99 million barrels / day
Oil left (barrels)
1,560,000,000,000
~47 years remaining at current rates
Natural gas left (boe)
0
~52 years remaining
Coal left (boe)
0
~133 years remaining
Solar energy striking Earth today (MWh)
0
Virtually unlimited supply
Health
Global disease, mortality, and healthcare metrics
Communicable disease deaths this year
0
~13 million / year
Source: WHO Global Burden of Disease
Seasonal flu deaths this year
0
~470,000 / year
Children under 5 who died this year
0
~4.5 million / year
Cancer deaths this year
0
~9.7 million / year
HIV/AIDS deaths this year
0
~630,000 / year
Cigarettes smoked today
0
~15 billion / day
Deaths from tobacco this year
0
~5 million / year
Road traffic accident fatalities this year
0
~1.3 million / year
Abortions this year
0
~73 million / year
Maternal deaths this year
0
~287,000 / year
Deaths from malaria this year
0
~619,000 / year
Deaths caused by alcohol this year
0
~3 million / year
Suicides this year
0
~720,000 / year
People living with HIV/AIDS
39,000,000
~39 million globally
Food & Water
Nourishment, hunger, and access to clean water
Undernourished people worldwide
821,000,000
~11% of world population
Source: FAO State of Food Insecurity
Overweight people worldwide
1,900,000,000
~1.9 billion globally
Obese people worldwide
775,000,000
~775 million globally
Deaths from hunger today
0
~25,000 / day
Water used this year (million liters)
0
~4 trillion m³ / year
People with no access to safe drinking water
785,000,000
~785 million people
Money spent on weight loss (US, this year)
$0
~$72 billion / year
Technology & Media
The digital transformation of human civilization
Internet users worldwide
5,500,000,000
~67% of world population
Source: ITU, World Bank
Emails sent today
0
~330 billion / day
Google searches today
0
~8.5 billion / day
Posts on social media today
0
~600 million / day
Cell phones sold today
0
~4.77 million / day
Computers sold this year
0
~280 million / year
Economy
Global spending, production, and economic output
World GDP today ($)
$0
~$105 trillion / year
Source: IMF World Economic Outlook
Healthcare spending today ($)
$0
~9% of world GDP
Public education spending today ($)
$0
~5% of world GDP
Military spending today ($)
$0
~$2.4 trillion / year
Cars produced this year
0
~80 million / year
Bicycles produced this year
0
~140 million / year
Money spent on video games today ($)
$0
~$184 billion / year
Illegal drug trade this year ($)
$0
~$32 billion / year
Society & Media
Books, newspapers, and cultural production
Books published this year
0
~2.6 million / year
Source: Bowker, UNESCO
Newspapers circulated today
0
~300 million / day
TV sets sold worldwide this year
0
~190 million / year
Blog posts written today
0
~5 million / day
Live Data
Real-time data from free APIs — updated automatically
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Bitcoin Price (USD)
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Source: CoinGecko (free API)
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Ethereum Price (USD)
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Bitcoin Market Cap
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Total market capitalization
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Earthquakes in last 24 hours
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All magnitudes — USGS data
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Strongest quake (24h)
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Magnitude — updated every 5 min
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ISS Current Position
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Planet & Digital
Modern metrics — plastic, species, streaming, AI, and space
Plastic produced this year (tons)
0
~400 million tons / year
Source: UNEP Plastics Report
Species gone extinct this year
0
~150 species / day (estimated)
Commercial flights in the air now
~12,000
Average at any given moment
Amazon packages shipped today
0
~1.6 million / day
Netflix hours streamed today
0
~452 million hours / day
TikTok videos uploaded today
0
~34 million / day
AI queries processed today
0
~10 billion / day (estimated)
Space debris objects tracked
36,500
Objects in Earth orbit — ESA data
Global debt ($)
$307T
~$307 trillion and growing
US national debt ($)
$34.5T
~$1 million added per minute