Cool, yet slightly disturbing.

] Cool, yet slightly disturbing.

Running totals of the world's total population, births, and deaths. And yes, it's a very odd sensation to watch the numbers change, and contemplate the human realities that are occurring each second. Speaking personally, it gives me an intensified sense of just how *many* different people and families and societies and cultures are on this planet at any given moment.

Very interesting, but what's disturbing is the amount of people being born vs. how many are dying.

] Cool, yet slightly disturbing.

Running totals of the world's total population, births, and deaths. And yes, it's a very odd sensation to watch the numbers change, and contemplate the human realities that are occurring each second. Speaking personally, it gives me an intensified sense of just how *many* different people and families and societies and cultures are on this planet at any given moment.

For some reason, this page totally peaks my CPU..

The latest figures about the earth and it's population, updated in real-time. The numbers mean so much more when you see them change.

O.S. Earth, "an operating system for Earth" (a bold tag line if ever there was one!), has a great section on their Web site featuring real-time counters of worldwide statistical estimates such as population, energy consumption, topsoil erosion, and a number of others.

For some months now, I've had an idea kicking around in my head for doing this very thing in a Palm OS application. The one thing missing was a clever title. And, doggone it, now these folks have already come up with a better one than I could ever make.

One thing I'd like to see (indeed, one thing I already wanted to include in my program) is statistics on pet populations, such as how many pets have to be euthanized because their parents weren't spayed or neutered and no one wants to adopt them.

(Real-time stats display requires JavaScript-capable browser.)