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  • louiebaur, on 04/28/2008, -26/+7That Spam email sent today thing just keeps going and going what a surprise
  • lsfloyd, on 04/28/2008, -24/+5The spam-o-meter is out of control
    • MarkusGarvey, on 04/28/2008, -1/+24what about the Solar Energy striking the Earth.....if we could somehow harvest it..........
      • 1randomguyO8, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Exactly thats what we are trying to do. Apparently its going to take decades to get the technology to harvest in large quantities.
    • jamesallen74, on 04/28/2008, -4/+6Number of jamesallen74 farts this year: 1890 1891 1892 1893
  • fitqueenb, on 04/28/2008, -21/+3that spam meter is speeding! And expected though...
  • lastdalek, on 04/28/2008, -44/+3SPAM: Another reason why Africa should be disconnected from the internet.
  • BlackSheep720, on 04/28/2008, -2/+104Spam: It's what the above comments are.
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    • drgmdp, on 04/29/2008, -1/+1the spam vs population numbers kinda show how many people is NOT connected to the internet. i mean, i receive more than 10 spam mails/day, yet the number of total spam messages is still less than the total population...
      • jmpeagle, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3that's spam produced today..notice how it's numbers are moving much much faster. Right now it is well over the total population
        • drgmdp, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3my bad.
          *****. that's a ***** lot of junk mails.
    • jumico, on 04/29/2008, -1/+0Spam in the place where I live (ham and pork)
      Think about nutrition, wonder whats inside it now (oh boy)
      Spam in my luchbox at work (its the best)
      Really makes a darn good sandwhich any way you slice it at all
  • mikkee07, on 04/28/2008, -24/+1That's cool. Are that real?
    • vudicarus, on 04/28/2008, -1/+28Are that be, matey!
    • masterm1nd, on 04/28/2008, -0/+7The exact numbers aren't "real-time" per say, but fairly close and accurate.
    • SuperWinner, on 04/28/2008, -2/+8That am be reals
    • Diderotten, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2It has an algorithm to estimate the flow, with periodic data from surveys backed up by the U.N. Close enough, I'd say.
    • exomni, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1They take projected growth estimates and let the clock run at the average speed, and every however often those numbers are updated they reset the clocks to the proper number and update the rate estimates.

      Same with the federal debt calculator, and nexgenwars.com
  • talnir, on 04/28/2008, -7/+16great Idea I wonder if it's accurate
    • bhavinp, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3ya good point. Over 1 billion people over weight? Thats BS, theres no way.
    • gtothreg, on 04/29/2008, -1/+3Definetly not accurate. It has # of HIV deaths per year outnumbering car fatalities per year. Driving a car is the most dangerous thing you can do. There are more deaths per year driving than anything else! ........And deaths by cancer are pretty low too. I had some faith in the numbers up until the heath #'s. Any Sociologists out there agree with that?
      • sonofblacula, on 04/29/2008, -0/+6I think you're only counting America. AIDS is a huge crisis in Africa, where medication and education are both hard to come by. And how many of the deaths in Sri Lanka or Micronesia do you think are caused by car crash? The numbers are global.
      • biotch, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1There is no deaths caused by HIV this year, theres only a running total.
        But I was surprised to see that there are only 31 million people infected by HIV. Thats way lower than I thought it was.
        • synyster, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2lol, only 31 million people, that's like 1 in 10 people in america
        • teh_techie, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1There are only 31 million people now, because some of them are fitting into the death category as well...
    • Refridgeron, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Well if it is... I blame the 887mil+ people that are unnourished on the 1.1bil+ overweight people.
    • bosssmiley, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Of course not; it's on the Internet. Accuracy has no place here! :-)
    • synyster, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1all the numbers in there look like a counter, i wonder where did they retrieve the data from?
  • surKaz, on 04/28/2008, -0/+27Hmm.. in the food section... As you're going thru how much food was produced..
    You're hit with it how many people died of hunger...*Sigh*..

    Woah.. more overweight than undernourished people?... Yikes..
    • Shuukyoku, on 04/29/2008, -0/+4What worries me is that Americans have created the worlds first morbidly obese yet deathly malnourished human beings ever to walk the earth. How have we managed that one?
      • bosssmiley, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Reminds me of the line in "Good Omens" about (Horseman of the Apocalypse) Famine smiling as it watched people starving themselves amidst plenty.
        • exomni, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2No, people starving others while they steal the plenty to eat themselves obese.
  • KokomoNYC, on 04/28/2008, -3/+5There's one under the "Environment" section that's just over 42 million and is ominously unlabeled.
    • macweirdo42, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6It's labeled for me, though no less ominous. It's the total number of tons of biological waste that organisms have produced this year.
      • KokomoNYC, on 04/28/2008, -0/+9Ah, thank you. I thought it could use a "poop" category.
  • borez, on 04/28/2008, -4/+37 Birth vs deaths statistics are the ones to watch.

    That double rate vs food production vs energy consumption = Complete meltdown of the human race.

    Scary thought..but it will happen.

    • wes00mertes, on 04/28/2008, -0/+12And my girlfriend said I was being selfish when I told her I never want kids...
    • ThaDRD, on 04/29/2008, -1/+8Yeah, that absolute population growth number is insane. Basically an entire city's worth of people are being created every, single day. Stop ***** out kids you selfish bastards.
      • synyster, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1at the same time half of city's worth population are dyeing every single day
      • 1randomguyO8, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Yeah it sucks and its the poorer people of the world having the most kids. Then they cant feed and educated their children, then they require aid. Then they have more kids and the circle continues.
    • StarBeamAlpha, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3Oh hi Malthus
    • NDfan0788, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1eventually the human race will either race a plateau stage (given the widespread population and need for nearly complete cooperation, not likely), or will kill the enviornment, thus causing a complete meltdown. we arent just going to all the sudden die off, we'll take everything else with us
  • floridiot2, on 04/28/2008, -14/+4Why is the Births today count going up faster than the Worlds population count?
  • davidkeithjones, on 04/28/2008, -15/+614 million abortions? Gross. Thats like half the population of Canada gone!
    • threemagic, on 04/28/2008, -1/+23That maybe the best pro-choice slogan ever!
      • staffa, on 04/28/2008, -0/+8I'm pro-life and that still made me laugh.
  • x0rcist, on 04/28/2008, -8/+22Earth's mass... that's a pretty useless one.
    Should put in Deaths caused by marijuana this year - 0.
    • kaelyiesta, on 04/28/2008, -0/+41It actually does change. The rate of mass gained is on the order of 10^8 kg per day. We also lose some as well, but the net change is still positive(somewhere around 10^6 to 10^8 kg). (Morbidelli et al. 1994; Farley, 2002)
      • K3ITHK, on 04/28/2008, -0/+43Citing sources? You're not from around here are you?
        • RxDaniel, on 04/29/2008, -0/+21Even worse is the fact that the source isn't wikipedia.
      • da_bradler, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Yaaaaa for space dust :)
    • x0rcist, on 04/29/2008, -3/+2I wasn't saying that I don't think it changes. My comment was more along the lines of who the ***** cares how massive the Earth is.
    • bhavinp, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3More useful would be number deaths cause by consumption of cheetos and pizza cause by marijuana use.
  • doshindude, on 04/28/2008, -14/+1How do these get reported to this site so fast? and what are the sources? did all statisticians know about this site all this time?
    • masterm1nd, on 04/28/2008, -1/+16It's all based on rates and averages.
    • RxDaniel, on 04/29/2008, -0/+13God finally got internet up in heaven and is updating the numbers in real time as he makes them happen.
      • sarixe, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1no, he's had it for a while, it's just that he decided to release the specs for the world.
      • synyster, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1is he using google app, otherwise the site will be down very quickly
  • LongShlong, on 04/28/2008, -3/+27Damn that's a lot of abortions!
    • sodade, on 04/28/2008, -2/+9Damn, that's a lot of Absolute Population growth.
    • kjcdude, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1"all this talking about abortions is making me super wet"
  • talonstriker, on 04/28/2008, -12/+7Most of these are probably predictions rather than real-life stats...but cool though.
  • SmellyFingers, on 04/28/2008, -8/+3q_q
  • groundctrl, on 04/28/2008, -5/+5MAN this is a great site
  • golemeter, on 04/28/2008, -1/+7The one on lightning strikes seems a little slow to me. Bill Bryson told me that lightning hits about a thousand times every second, and Bill Bryson knows EVERYTHING.
    • staffa, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Maybe the difference is between lightning happening and lightning striking the earth. The earth striking one being the one noted here.
  • Hockey13, on 04/28/2008, -3/+2It should be noted that as the rate of population growth increases and more countries across the world modernize, the rate of technology growth has to increase if we assume new innovation to be some function of the size of the total population in developed countries. If you assume there's one absurdly smart person out of every billion, each billion we add, we get another absurdly smart person. That, at least, is the theory.
    • staffa, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2Who's theory?

      I think it's a pretty retarded theory, not because it is incorrect, but because it utterly pales in comparison to all the absurdly smart people we lose that never had a chance because they were born in circumstances that did not provide the kind of environment where they could flourish. This isn't just about having enough food to stave off retardation, it's about education and an academic environment to learn and be challanged in.

      Overpopulation is not a problem with a self correcting solution*, well it is, but this isn't it.

      *Famine, disease and war would be the self correcting solution.
    • TacitusBen, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1According to the Worldometers website, the rate of population growth has been decreasing since the 1960s, not increasing.
  • wicherspm, on 04/28/2008, -3/+12Slight inaccuracy, as morbid as it may be, and I understand that its all scripts, but shouldn't the number of undernourished people decrease when there is a death from hunger?
    • Wiini, on 04/28/2008, -0/+6Yes... yes it should. And the people suffering from diseases should likely drop after X amount of people have died from diseases too.

      Life is balance!
    • jmpeagle, on 04/29/2008, -0/+7the number being born into undernourishment outweighs the death
  • tont0r, on 04/28/2008, -11/+1Inaccurate. From the FAQ:
    "The algorithm itself, and the numbers included in the algorithm, are not updated in real time simply because the sources from which the data is derived are not able to provide real time updates, but only periodical ones. "
  • ameba, on 04/28/2008, -0/+59only 6 days until the world population is 6,666,666,666!
    • alenox, on 04/29/2008, -5/+4oh noes! its a sign that obama the anti-christ wil rise to power...better dust off my tinfoil hat
    • bhavinp, on 04/29/2008, -5/+3I guess someones not an athiest.
    • fuzzybeard, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Big whoop.
    • synyster, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1who will be that lucky baby? it will be so cool if someone find that out
  • Lazdude, on 04/28/2008, -6/+1One of the most incredible things I've ever seen, I could watch this for hours.
    • sarixe, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1go right ahead. meanwhile, i'll be watching it stoned...
  • scy1192, on 04/28/2008, -10/+4sad that the abortions this year are nearing 15 million, while the abortions that can be justified harm to the mother) are a little over 410 thousand. That's less than 3%.
    • Simonft, on 04/28/2008, -2/+8That's not true if you count babies that are unwanted are that the mother can't support as being harmful to the mother.
  • signius, on 04/28/2008, -1/+60I didn't see a counter for the amount of people 'Rick Rolled' this year!
    • Enasni1212, on 04/29/2008, -0/+8Some things are better left unknown.
    • haidalangara, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1*number


      "number of people..."
      • Enasni1212, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Could be amount if he was talking about kilograms of people.
    • fuzzybeard, on 04/29/2008, -1/+2A Googolrickrollplex?
  • killbert24, on 04/28/2008, -7/+3This is the bomb diggity.
  • ryandaws, on 04/28/2008, -1/+5So 20% of deaths are starvation related?
    High-five, ethanol....
    • stealthc, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1In aill fairness, the ethanol push hasn't eliminated corn supply; many farmers converted from another crop to supply biofuel corn. The real consequence of this is rising prices of other foods due to increased scarcity of products that depend on crops that are *not* corn, because so many farmers quit growing them in order to grow corn.
      • boredrph, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1so, in all fairness... we can still blame it on corn based ethanol
    • linagee, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1You could just drive less.
    • JointVenture, on 04/28/2008, -1/+3You live in a DESERT! ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
    • fuzzybeard, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3Nevermind the fact that corn-sourced ethanol also has a hidden cost to produce: it needs nitrogen fertilizer. Soya doesn't; it produces it's own. If farmers aren't damn careful with their crop management practices, the Green Revolution that started back in the 1950's is gonna turn around and bite us in the ass!
  • TokenBrownGuy, on 04/28/2008, -1/+1Obviously, SPAM owns all..... :-
  • stealthc, on 04/28/2008, -6/+4I'd like to take that "Countries in the UN" number down by one.
    • darlingt, on 04/28/2008, -6/+1Agreed. It's time for us to pull out...

      THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!
      (Sorry, but I had to.)
  • punkcat, on 04/28/2008, -8/+1buried, no differentiation between Macs and PCs.
    • sarixe, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2buried, bogus reason for burying something
  • KragTheDigger, on 04/28/2008, -1/+2been around a while (e.g.:since 2005? http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/08/worldomet ... ) thanks for refreshing my memory though.
  • fragile00, on 04/28/2008, -1/+14Those numbers are depressing.
  • robbob, on 04/28/2008, -3/+8Where does it pull the data from? I be its just a BS numerical algorithm based on the law of averages
    • Wacer, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Might lookup the total number for a each statistic for a year and then divides it out over the year.
      • teh_techie, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1That would be exactly how it derives it.
  • datajohnson, on 04/28/2008, -9/+6Why doesn't the "Deaths of children under 5 this year" increase at least at the same rate as "Abortions this year"?
    • boredrph, on 04/28/2008, -3/+4while I agree with you... its because... you know... apparently that baby is not a baby... its a thing, just a fetus, just tissue... not a human. Therefore its not really a death of a child... sick
      • inkyblue2, on 04/29/2008, -4/+2you're right. it really isn't. there are lots of sick things in this world and this just isn't one of them.
    • Zippo, on 04/28/2008, -2/+6Because an abortion would be defined as pre-birth... whereas "under 5" would be from *after* birth until age 5.
    • inkyblue2, on 04/28/2008, -4/+1because not everyone agrees with your reckoning there, sherlock.
    • teh_techie, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Cuz we're not all nutty religious pro-life activists...
  • MeetHouston, on 04/28/2008, -0/+2While it certainly helps to put things in perspective, its hard to even comprehend what most the numbers actually mean -- damage to environment, people working to produce those cars, the families affected by the deaths and births, etc...truly astounding how expansive our world really is.
  • frankenstien, on 04/28/2008, -6/+8lame, numbers just rise due to averages. not really real time
    • terracottapai, on 04/28/2008, -0/+1That's because it's an impractical proposition, numbnuts.
    • fuzzmeister, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Care to propose how it would be done otherwise?
  • Diderotten, on 04/28/2008, -1/+7What really scares me is the books published this year number. It hasn't moved!
    • RxDaniel, on 04/29/2008, -1/+4You should be working on your novel instead of looking at digg then.
    • jmpeagle, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1it moves up one every 30 seconds or so...that's a lot of books being published..and those are just titles published not multiple copies of the same book
  • mogebier, on 04/28/2008, -10/+31. "Real time numbers" - *****.
    2. Why is the HIV deaths a TOTAL, instead of a this-year tally like the rest?? Because you would see how few people are dieing of HIV right now. CANCER kills more people every year.
    3. Most of these numbers are hippy, tree-hugging crap numbers.
    • toomanytuxedos, on 04/29/2008, -0/+42. There's this thing called Africa....
  • JointVenture, on 04/28/2008, -3/+19I just watched someone get AIDS.
    • RxDaniel, on 04/29/2008, -0/+7You should probably call them and let them know they need to go to a doctor, it's the responsible thing to do.
  • chris900, on 04/28/2008, -8/+7These are nothing more than an approximation. Just take a look at their javascript at http://www.worldometers.info/engine0408y.js

    Note the timeRemaining() function in there, it's calculating everything based off of a difference between the current time and a time in the past, and then building in some offset averages to slow or speed up the results in what is almost always a linear fashion. This means it's going to be a wildly inaccurate approximation of reality at best because many of these systems don't follow linear trajectories (like population growth, for example).

    Overall, this site is just a nifty exercise in javascript, but I wouldn't treat these values as accurate, useful, or anything more than simple food for thought.
    • haochi, on 04/29/2008, -1/+2Dugg down for you. Of course it's approximation, even the US Census are doing estimation.
      http://census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
      but as you can see from their file naming syntax, they update the calculation about once per month. (I assume)
    • Wisgary, on 04/29/2008, -1/+4Talk about missing the point.
    • teh_techie, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1Try changing your computer clock - maybe we can stop some deaths!
  • bmystry, on 04/28/2008, -3/+2How are the numbers of people with unsafe water increasing? Shouldn't they be going down since bad water kills you?
    • RxDaniel, on 04/29/2008, -0/+7They won't stop having babies even when they are dieing from starvation and lack of water.
    • TacitusBen, on 04/29/2008, -0/+2Probably due to more sources of water are becoming polluted, increasing the number of affected persons.
  • relic120, on 04/29/2008, -8/+4I think we need more deaths.
  • ccxftw, on 04/29/2008, -1/+3Well...that's pretty depressing.
  • TheCoreh, on 04/29/2008, -1/+3Why did they use images for plain text?!
    • teh_techie, on 04/29/2008, -0/+1I thought that too.. I wanted to select it with my mouse to find out *gasp*, it's an IMAGE FILE!
  • acmilanrocks, on 04/29/2008, -9/+3LMFAO, when a plane drops down and kills 300 people, we can know that quick if the deaths just sky rocket.
  • ASSASSYN360, on 04/29/2008, -2/+11Wheres the number of hours on digg wasted this year trying to get a a funny and or sarcastic comment dug to the top.
  • liviaokokok, on 04/29/2008, -4/+2Not real time numbers.. These numbers are all based on a statistical calculations....
  • askegg, on 04/29/2008, -0/+5Something is wrong when over 14,000 people died of hunger today while over $11 billion was spent on dieting in the USA alone.
  • dtfinch, on 04/29/2008, -0/+3Today's spam count seems a bit low.
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