🌍Every 10 minutes the planet adds 1,635 net inhabitants.⚡6,000 lightning strikes have hit Earth in the last 60 seconds.🚀The planet has traveled 1,780 km in space since you opened this page.📱230 million emails were sent in this exact second.❤️8 billion human hearts just beat almost at the same time.☄️30 kg of cosmic dust just entered the atmosphere.🩸3.5 million red blood cells were created in your body while reading this.💧80,000 cubic meters of water evaporated from the oceans this second.🌍Every 10 minutes the planet adds 1,635 net inhabitants.⚡6,000 lightning strikes have hit Earth in the last 60 seconds.🚀The planet has traveled 1,780 km in space since you opened this page.📱230 million emails were sent in this exact second.❤️8 billion human hearts just beat almost at the same time.☄️30 kg of cosmic dust just entered the atmosphere.🩸3.5 million red blood cells were created in your body while reading this.💧80,000 cubic meters of water evaporated from the oceans this second.
World Population
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Births today
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4.56 / second
Deaths today
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1.84 / second
✈ Flights in air
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World map — population density
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Global alerts
CO₂ at 424 ppm — NOAA record 2025
Official
CVD: #1 killer, 18.6M deaths/yr
Official
Air traffic: ~102K flights/day (ICAO)
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Top causes of death today
Time Machine: 1880 → 2050
Drag the slider and watch the world change — from horse carts to AI, from empires to smartphones.
2020
🚀 Growth Speed: +1.0% / yr
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World Population
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Births / sec
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Deaths / sec
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Global average
Life Expectancy
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Years
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Dominant Generation
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Generation driving the global economy
Global Median Age
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Half the world is younger, half is older
FIFA World Cup 2026™ — Economic & Sports Impact
Final statistics following the conclusion of the 2026 tournament across the USA, Mexico, and Canada.
Total Revenue
$15.2B
Record breaking revenue
Total Attendance
6.81M
65,490 avg per match
Goals Scored
308
2.96 per match
Matches Played
104
First 48-team tourney
Historical Comparison
Edition
Teams
Matches
Attendance
Revenue
🇺🇸🇲🇽🇨🇦 2026
48
104
6.81M
$15.2B
🇶🇦 2022
32
64
3.40M
$7.6B
🇷🇺 2018
32
64
3.03M
$5.5B
🇧🇷 2014
32
64
3.42M
$4.7B
🇺🇸 1994
24
52
3.59M
$1.5B*
Digital Reach & Infrastructure
Global Video Views
~20B
Data Transported
13M GB
Stadium Occupancy
99.7%
US TV Viewers (Round of 32)
36.2M
Fan Festival Attendees
7.7M
What Time Is It, Anywhere?
Search any country or city in the world and see its exact local time, live — or just tap one of the quick picks below.
☀️ Daytime
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Move your mouse over a country and see its local time, its population, and how many people are being born and dying there right now.
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What happens on Earth in exactly 10 minutes?
Fixed mathematical estimates based on UN and WHO annual averages divided into 10-minute blocks (1 year = 52,560 blocks).
Births (10 min)
2,736
New humans
Deaths (10 min)
1,101
Global passing
Net Growth
+1,635
Extra inhabitants every 10 min
Births & Deaths: Latin America (10 min)
Country
Births
Deaths
🇧🇷 Brasil
~49
~28
🇲🇽 México
~36
~15
🇨🇴 Colombia
~11
~5
🇦🇷 Argentina
~11
~6
🇵🇪 Perú
~9
~3
Births & Deaths: World Powers (10 min)
Country
Births
Deaths
🇮🇳 India
~437
~171
🇨🇳 China
~171
~190
🇺🇸 Estados Unidos
~68
~57
🇳🇬 Nigeria
~152
~47
🇷🇺 Rusia
~23
~36
Causes of Mortality (in 10 min)
Cardiovascular
~342
Cancer
~182
Respiratory Disease
~76
Traffic Accidents
~25
Malaria
~11
Strange Events & Curiosities (in 10 min)
Lightning strikes Earth
~60,000
Earthquakes (micro)
~10
Cosmic dust entering
~760 kg
Snake bites
~102
Marriages celebrated
~333
The magnitude of Earth in a single day
Real-time simulation tracking planetary, biological, and digital milestones since midnight UTC.
Lightning Strikes
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~100 strikes per second
Data Generated
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Terabytes created
Cosmic Dust
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Kg entering atmosphere
Human Heartbeats
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Billion beats globally
New Species Found
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~16,000/year described
M5.0+ Earthquakes
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USGS 20-yr average
Domains Registered
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.com / .net only
Photos Taken
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Worldwide, all devices
Orbital Distance
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Kilometers traveled around the Sun today. Velocity: 107,000 km/h.
Emails Sent
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Total emails processed worldwide. ~3.8 million per second.
WhatsApp Messages
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Meta, 2020 baseline — likely higher today
YouTube Watch Time
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Hours, 2017 baseline — likely higher today
Population now
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UN 2024Estimate
Births / second
4.56
143.8M/yrEstimate
Deaths / second
1.84
57.9M/yrEstimate
Net / second
2.72
Births − DeathsEstimate
Population by region
World Bank API — live
Indicator
Value
Year
Type
Global health monitor
Deaths today
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WHO 57.9M/yrEstimate
Cancer today
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IARC 9.6M/yrEstimate
Cardiovascular today
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WHO 18.6M/yrEstimate
Infectious today
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IHME GBDEstimate
All causes of death
Cause
Annual
Today
%
Trend
Source
Health indicators — live
Indicator
Value
Year
Type
Global consumption since midnight UTC
Running totals for today only (since 00:00 UTC), built from each source's published annual or daily rate. Statistical estimates — not live measurements.
Energy today
Source
TWh
%
Mobility & travel
✈ Flights in air
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🚢 Cargo ships
~51,400
merchant fleet active
UNCTAD 2024Official
🧳 Tourists today
~3.8M
daily cross-border
UNWTO 1.4B/yrEstimate
Live aircraft tracking
Aviation metrics
Metric
Value
Type
Daily commercial flights
~102,000
Official
Annual passengers
4.7B
Official
Flights per second
~1.18
Estimate
Aviation CO₂/day
~6.4 Mt
Estimate
Live weather — Open-Meteo
City
Temp
Condition
Wind
Humidity
Type
World economy pulse
World GDP 2024
$109.5T
IMF WEO 2024Official
GDP today (est.)
$300B
IMF / 365Estimate
World trade
$32.1T
WTO 2024Official
Global inflation
5.8%
IMF Apr 2025Official
Top economies — GDP
#
Country
GDP
Growth
1
USA
$29.2T
+2.8%
2
China
$18.6T
+4.9%
3
Germany
$4.6T
+0.2%
4
Japan
$4.1T
+1.9%
5
India
$3.9T
+7.0%
6
UK
$3.3T
+0.4%
7
France
$3.1T
+1.1%
8
Brazil
$2.3T
+2.9%
Commodity prices (reference)
Commodity
Price
Unit
Crude (Brent)
~$82
/bbl
Natural Gas
~$11.4
/MMBtu
Gold
~$2,330
/oz
Wheat
~$220
/mt
Copper
~$9,800
/mt
Big Mac Index — prices in major world capitals
Self-updating algorithm: each capital's Big Mac price in local currency (The Economist, January 2026 edition) is automatically converted to US dollars using live exchange rates, refreshed every time you open this page.
Most expensive capital
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Cheapest capital
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Global average (24 capitals)
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Big Mac price by capital (USD)
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Capital
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Price (USD)
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The world's 50 biggest companies — last 20 years
Explore how the ranking of the world's largest companies has shifted over two decades. Toggle between market capitalization and annual revenue, then move the year slider to see the top 50 and how each company's position changed versus the previous snapshot.
2025
📊 Ranked by: Market Capitalization
20052010201520202025
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Combined Top 50 Value
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Sum of top 50 companies
Country with Most Entries
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Top Sector
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Top 50 ranking
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Company
Country
Sector
Value (USD B)
Change vs prev.
Human height around the world
Average adult height and how it's distributed across continents and geographic regions, based on the NCD-RisC global height study. Continental figures are population-weighted aggregates of national data; the height-range distribution is a statistical estimate, not a directly measured figure.
Global Male Average
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NCD-RisC / Our World in Data
Global Female Average
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NCD-RisC / Our World in Data
Tallest Country (Male Avg)
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Shortest Country (Male Avg)
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Average height by continent
Continent
Male avg
Female avg
Global height distribution (estimate)
Top 10 tallest countries
#
Country
Male
Female
Top 10 shortest countries
#
Country
Male
Female
Global gender statistics
👧 Girls born today
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48.5% of all births
👦 Boys born today
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51.5% natural sex ratio
♀ Women died today
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46.7% of all deaths
♂ Men died today
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53.3% — higher male mortality
Births — breakdown
Deaths — breakdown
If the world were 100 people
🌍 Each WorldPulso figure represents 1% of humanity — about 81 million people.
Gender
Each figure = 1% of humanity
Distribution
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Real-world rankings, largest to smallest, so you can compare scale at a glance: buildings, mountains, countries, animals, planes, flight routes and ships.
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Ranking
Country rankings
How countries compare on the things that shape everyday life: happiness, life expectancy, human development, internet access and wealth. Each list uses the latest data from its official source.
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World records
Curious, verified extremes about people, nature and technology — mostly certified by Guinness World Records, the WMO or USGS.
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World Quiz
Test what you know about the world — mixing general trivia with real facts from WorldPulso itself. Every round is a fresh combination, so questions take a long time to repeat.
Live world economy
Real cryptocurrency prices and major world currency exchange rates, refreshed every time you open this page — free, open data sources with no daily limits, so this keeps working no matter how much the site grows.
Cryptocurrencies
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World currencies (vs. US Dollar)
Currency
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Live World Headlines
Headlines from a handful of trusted global sources (BBC, Al Jazeera, El Tiempo), refreshed automatically. This is not an algorithm ranking "importance" — just real headlines, newest first, each linking to the original source to read the full story.
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Free API registry & data sources
Live API status
Data sources used per section
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