Worldometers: A Real-Time Look at the What’s Going on in the World
Travel Blog • Frank Bures • 02.13.08 | 12:33 PM ET
It’s impossible to watch the numbers spin at Worldometers without getting a concrete sense of just how fast the world is changing. The site features real-time counters for dozens of world stats, including the size of the world’s population; how many cars have been produced, books published and computers sold this year; and the fast-rising price of a bottle of beer in Zimbabwe—almost Z$4 million. It’s all terrifying and mesmerizing.
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Jack from eyeflare.com 02.13.08 | 2:01 PM ET
This really is fascinating, I had to pull my eyes away from the counters. It’s really scary how much topsoil is lost from farmland each second, several tons while I watched. Also how much pollutants we as a world put out…
Lola Akinmade 02.13.08 | 2:49 PM ET
It sure is mesmerizing. Every half a second a child is born, and every second, someone loses their life.
John M. Edwards 02.13.08 | 3:08 PM ET
Hi Frank:
I still haven’t checked the Worldometers website yet, but I can tell I will shift into high gear tonight and stare in goggle-eyed fascination, grimacing with blue teeth, colored by an inexpensive Beaujolais, at the audacity of such a vision.
Checking stats, facts, and figures is about as addictive as a good foie gras—and to be digested in moderation, with a healthy eye for fudge quotient and flawed canvassing.
It does sound like a good reference spot, to glean a surprising arch eyebrow raiser, and tart up an argument.