Eight billion of us, almost all in the same narrow strip across South and East Asia. Globe pulsed by the diurnal rhythm of cities, lit by every Wikipedia edit as it happens. A tree showing every known language. A point cloud where each dot is a thousand people. Demography as something you can feel.
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.
Cities pulse with the diurnal rhythm of humanity — regions dim as people sleep, brighten as they wake; Wikipedia edit-flares fire at language-region centroids (not exact edit locations).
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.
Every person on Earth as one pixel-particle (1:1000 scale). Eight billion points, almost all in a narrow strip across South and East Asia.
3D dendrogram of human language families — Indo-European, Sino-Tibetan, Niger-Congo and more — growing from a common root. Click any leaf to hear "hello" via browser TTS.