Worldometer – real time world statistics

The thing I remember about Worldometer is that Max Roser of <i>Our World In Data</i> (&quot;OWID&quot;) was appalled by the quality of their data on Corona last year. Have these issues been resolved?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MaxCRoser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1248585604809490432" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MaxCRoser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1248585604809490432</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MaxCRoser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1262723848866316288" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;MaxCRoser&#x2F;status&#x2F;1262723848866316288</a>

I am going to put my <i>bad person hat</i> and complain these are not real time statistics.<p>I doubt they have tapped into the feed of actual children being born and people dying, videogames sold or tweets sent.<p>I am going to assume that it is ticking up by the interpolated number each second based up what it did last week &#x2F; month &#x2F; year.<p>I would love for more actual real time data to be public.

I applaud whoever put this site together - it&#x27;s a simple thing that aggregates stats and runs counters, for what reason I&#x27;m not sure, but it seems like they put a decent effort into it. And they don&#x27;t run ads, which is great. But it really got its boost in 2020 when everyone who was watching had to look at it every goddamn day for pandemic numbers.<p>There&#x27;s nothing new about this site, but it is a nice site.

While I think the idea of visualizations of global scale number is good this seems to bring with it a political agenda. It would be improved if I could see multiple viewpoints and those agendas were made fully transparent.<p>I also think some ratios&#x2F;comparisons could be interesting. The rate of births to deaths would be interesting to see with the numbers ticking along. While I can see the population ticking up I never realized there were 67k more people born every day than die.

It&#x27;s shocking to me how much energy is stored in oil and natural gas (and insolation). We&#x27;re spoiled with resources! And still so many suffer without the basic necessities of life.

I don&#x27;t really believe that this is a real time world statistics, there are a lot of variables at play and thus, one can&#x27;t measure an accurate figure of a specific category.