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Worldometer – real time world statistics

28 points| mattowen_uk | 4 years ago |worldometers.info | reply

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[+] blitzar|4 years ago|reply
I am going to put my bad person hat and complain these are not real time statistics.

I doubt they have tapped into the feed of actual children being born and people dying, videogames sold or tweets sent.

I am going to assume that it is ticking up by the interpolated number each second based up what it did last week / month / year.

I would love for more actual real time data to be public.

[+] capableweb|4 years ago|reply
I'm certain no one believes these numbers are actually real time as per definition of real time, as it would be impossible to know. But yeah, even the title tag contains "Worldometer - real time world statistics" so if they cannot even avoid lying with the very first data that gets parsed by the browser, what's to say they don't lie about the other stats?
[+] noduerme|4 years ago|reply
I applaud whoever put this site together - it's a simple thing that aggregates stats and runs counters, for what reason I'm not sure, but it seems like they put a decent effort into it. And they don't run ads, which is great. But it really got its boost in 2020 when everyone who was watching had to look at it every goddamn day for pandemic numbers.

There's nothing new about this site, but it is a nice site.

[+] McKayDavis|4 years ago|reply
> And they don't run ads, which is great

You must be running an ad blocker because Worldometers most definitely runs ads.

[+] greenail|4 years ago|reply
While I think the idea of visualizations of global scale number is good this seems to bring with it a political agenda. It would be improved if I could see multiple viewpoints and those agendas were made fully transparent.

I also think some ratios/comparisons could be interesting. The rate of births to deaths would be interesting to see with the numbers ticking along. While I can see the population ticking up I never realized there were 67k more people born every day than die.

[+] tejohnso|4 years ago|reply
It's shocking to me how much energy is stored in oil and natural gas (and insolation). We're spoiled with resources! And still so many suffer without the basic necessities of life.
[+] julbook|4 years ago|reply
I don't really believe that this is a real time world statistics, there are a lot of variables at play and thus, one can't measure an accurate figure of a specific category.