World stats, live
The world in numbers as it moves. Every figure names its source and its time; an estimate says it is one, and how it is worked out.
People, now
Births, deaths and the world's population as estimated counters, moved by the World Bank's published rates, never counted.
Born since 1 January
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ESTIMATE World Bank birth rate, 2024
Died since 1 January
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ESTIMATE World Bank death rate, 2024
More people since 1 January
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DERIVED births minus deaths, the two estimates beside it
| A second | A minute | An hour | A day | A year, per 1,000 people | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 4.28 | 257 | 15,396 | 369,500 | 16.3 |
| Die | 1.98 | 119 | 7,144 | 171,448 | 7.6 |
| More people | 2.29 | 138 | 8,252 | 198,053 | 8.7 |
ESTIMATE The World Bank's crude birth and death rates for 2024, applied to the world's population; a rate is people a year for every 1,000. Not counted: no one counts the world's births as they happen.
The world's events, counted
What the sources list right now, counted by Browse; each opens on the live map.
Earthquakes, past 24 hours
18
Magnitude 4.5 or more, or significant. 16.4 a day over the past week (DERIVED).
OBSERVED USGS · just now
The largest, past 24 hours
M 5.8
262 km SSW of Severo-Kuril’sk, Russia · 22 h ago
OBSERVED USGS · just now
Disasters GDACS lists as current
1
Orange or Red alert level; 0 at Red.
ALERT GDACS · just now
Tropical cyclones now
0
Storms GDACS lists as current.
ALERT GDACS · just now
US weather alerts in force
220
69 of them Severe or Extreme.
ALERT National Weather Service · just now
Current, by kind
1
Floods 0 · droughts 1 · volcanoes 0 · wildfires 0
ALERT GDACS · just now
Money
The European Central Bank's reference rates against the US dollar, and how they moved.
Money
Key currency pairs and how they moved.
| USD / EUR | 0.8947 | +0.8% | |
|---|---|---|---|
| USD / JPY | 158.23 | +0.1% | |
| USD / GBP | 0.7573 | +0.5% |
ECB daily reference rates, 7 Oct 2026. Change: what 1 USD buys against the previous reference day (DERIVED). Lines: since 6 Sep 2026.
Attention, yesterday
English Wikipedia pages read far more than the day before. Attention, not importance.
- 1Steve GleasonFastest rising yesterday515,772 views
- 2Jim BakkerFastest rising yesterday250,833 views
- 3Nidal HasanFastest rising yesterday225,359 views
STATISTIC Wikimedia page views (CC0), bot spikes left out.
World numbers
Official figures and estimates, each for the date or year it is for. A projection, where offered, is labelled and kept apart.
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Life expectancy at birth, years.
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Space weather
NOAA's scales and messages. What is observed and what is forecast are labelled apart.
Space, now
The station where Browse computes it this second, who is off the planet, and the next launch.