WHAT THE HELL ARE PEOPLE DOING?

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Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics & simulated day/night cycles


How is this calculated? Why I made this? Changelog?

Global Population Pyramid

Estimated age and gender distribution of the world population (Data: UN WPP 2023 based). This pyramid is illustrative and does not update in real-time with the main population counter.

THE BEST PART: Visualizing 8.2 Billion People

This is about 30,000 people (zoom in, each one has its own thoughts, family, identity, fears, regret, pain, secrets, dreams, habits, beliefs, insecurities, relationships, questions, responsibilities, desires, deadlines, needs, wants, hunger and everything just like you), and that's about 4 (FOUR) dots in the image you will see below (there are 1,000,000 dots in that image):

Population Dots

Now you will see a visual representation of the global population, with each dot representing 8,224 people (about a Drake Stadium). Brace yourself! Scroll downnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Million Dots

You made it! Impressive, right? Zoom in! And that's only about 7% of all humans who have ever lived!!!!!!

Fun Fact

At the end, we all become the lunch of these little guys:

Population History

Ew!