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Track live global statistics across population, health, economy, technology, environment, energy, and other major areas of daily life.


This feed lets you follow a wide range of continuously changing world indicators, including population growth, births and deaths, public spending, internet activity, production, environmental change, resource consumption, energy use, health statistics, and other global measures. Values are reported in their relevant units.


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No.Selection optionCurrent valueUnit
1Current World Population8,326,571,166People
2Births this year112,116,191Births
3Births today23,654Births
4Deaths this year52,829,680Deaths
5Deaths today11,151Deaths
6Net population growth this year59,286,527People
7Net population growth today12,518People
8Public Healthcare expenditure today1,203,316,599USD
9Public Education expenditure today786,053,689USD
10Public Military expenditure today314,226,879USD
11Cars produced this year78,563,686Cars
12Bicycles produced this year137,739,369Bicycles
13Computers produced this year187,446,425Computers
14New book titles published this year2,456,447Book titles
15Newspapers circulated today29,383,231Newspaper copies
16TV sets sold worldwide today44,505TV sets
17Cellular phones sold today553,892Cellular phones
18Money spent on videogames today23,022,402USD
19Internet users in the world today7,441,266,921People
20Emails sent today22,022,619,071Emails
21Blog posts written today933,778Blog posts
22Tweets sent today72,273,791Tweets
23Google searches today927,748,289Searches
24Forest loss this year (hectares)4,403,367Hectares
25Land lost to soil erosion this year (ha)5,928,124Hectares
26CO2 emissions this year (tons)34,070,190,649Tons
27Desertification this year (hectares)10,160,591Hectares
28Toxic chemicals released in the environment this year (tons)8,291,363Tons
29Undernourished people in the world901,686,771People
30Overweight people in the world1,803,309,207People

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