About Glostats

Glostats is a live statistics dashboard for the world and its 238 countries and territories. It shows real-time population counters, births and deaths this year, historical charts, an interactive world map, country rankings, and the latest headlines for every country — all in one place, free, with no account required.

Start with the world overview, browse all countries, explore the interactive map, rank every country on 28 indicators in the rankings, put any two countries side by side with compare, or follow the world's wars in the conflict tracker.

Live counters are statistical extrapolations of the latest official estimates — UN World Population Prospects country baselines and growth rates — advanced every second; they are estimates, not counts.

Nobody counts people in real time. Each country starts from its most recent official baseline population and demographic rates (birth, death, migration and growth rates). Your browser then advances that baseline second by second, which is why the numbers tick while you watch. The result is a well-founded estimate of the current figure — the true value at any instant is unknowable, and small differences from other estimates (or from reality) are expected. Historical charts, by contrast, show the official recorded series exactly as published by their sources.

• United Nations World Population Prospects — baseline populations and demographic rates behind every live counter.
• World Bank Open Data — historical indicators: population, GDP, life expectancy, CO₂ emissions, urbanization and more.
• Wikipedia — country summaries and background reading on country pages.
• Google News — latest headlines shown on country pages.
• UCDP, ACLED, UN agencies (OCHA, OHCHR, UNHCR, IOM), the ICRC, the International Crisis Group, the IISS Military Balance and major news organisations — the conflict tracker, where every figure is a sourced range with its date (see how it works).

Everything shown on Glostats comes from these sources or is computed directly from them (for example rankings, densities and trend directions). Nothing is invented.

Questions, corrections or suggestions are welcome through the contact page. See also the terms of use (you may reuse our figures with a link) and the privacy policy.

Every ranking can be downloaded as CSV from the datasets page, and any country's live counter can be embedded on your own site with one line of HTML. Attribution with a link to the source page is all we ask.