Acht Milliarden von uns, fast alle im selben schmalen Streifen quer durch Süd- und Ostasien. Ein Globus, der vom Tagesrhythmus der Städte pulsiert und von jeder Wikipedia-Bearbeitung aufleuchtet, sobald sie geschieht. Ein Baum, der jede bekannte Sprache zeigt. Eine Punktwolke, in der jeder Punkt für tausend Menschen steht. Demografie als etwas, das Sie spüren können.
A live atlas of how many years of school a child can expect — 47 nations ranked, racing up the decades, with the schooling-versus-wealth story laid bare.
A live view of the mobile revolution — cellular subscriptions rocketing past one-per-person across 28 nations as the world leapfrogs the landline, drawn straight from the World Bank archive.
A live explorer of every Nobel Prize laureate since 1901 — sift 1,000+ minds by category, decade, gender and birth country, and read the citation that earned each one the call from Stockholm.
A live planet of public holidays — what the world is celebrating right now, and any country’s whole year laid out month by month.
A live scatter of what every nation spends on health against the years it buys — the famous diminishing-returns curve, and the US spending far more yet living no longer.
A live atlas of world kitchens — wander cuisine by cuisine, open any dish, and watch a single ingredient thread itself across the globe.
Städte pulsieren im Tagesrhythmus der Menschheit — Regionen verdunkeln sich, wenn die Menschen schlafen, und erhellen sich, wenn sie erwachen; Wikipedia-Bearbeitungen blitzen an den Zentren der Sprachregionen auf (nicht an den exakten Bearbeitungsorten).
Watch humanity drain out of the countryside and into the city — 24 nations crossing the 50% line as their rural and urban halves trade places, decade by decade since 1960.
The age-sex structure of a nation as a back-to-back pyramid — scrub the decades and watch the shape morph from a broad young base to a top-heavy graying spire.
A bar-chart race of adult literacy across five decades — nations hauling themselves from a third of adults reading to nearly all of them, with the 90% summit marked as each one crests it.
A bar-chart race of how long a newborn can expect to live — 24 nations sprinting up the decades, with mid-century leaps and recent dips laid bare.
A bar-chart race of the planet logging on — 25 nations climbing from near-zero to near-everyone as the internet sweeps across three decades.
A bar-chart race of female labour-force participation — 24 nations across the decades, where some send four in five women to work and others fewer than one in five.
A bar-chart race of births per woman as nations tumble from six or seven children toward one or two — the quiet demographic earthquake of the last sixty years, with a replacement line that countries slip beneath one by one.
The demographic transition drawn live: every nation a dot on a births-versus-deaths plane, the gap between them its natural growth — watch booms swell, mature, and slip below the line into shrinking as the years roll by.
Jeder Mensch auf der Erde als ein Pixel-Partikel (Maßstab 1:1000). Acht Milliarden Punkte, fast alle in einem schmalen Streifen quer durch Süd- und Ostasien.
3D-Dendrogramm der menschlichen Sprachfamilien — Indogermanisch, Sinotibetisch, Niger-Kongo und mehr —, die aus einer gemeinsamen Wurzel wachsen. Klicken Sie auf ein Blatt, um per Browser-Sprachausgabe „Hallo“ zu hören.