What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics

Missed opportunity to add a "viewing this dashboard (0.00000125%)" stat since it already has the live viewers counter :)

Related:<p>I find the simulation and visualization of the same topic (albeit for US only) by DataFlow much more engaging and comprehensible. The project is based on data of a US survey.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowingdata.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;a-day-in-the-life-of-americans&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flowingdata.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;12&#x2F;15&#x2F;a-day-in-the-life-of-amer...</a>

The changelog indicates:<p>&gt; * <i>Fixed &quot;Intimacy&quot; count to always be an even number.</i><p>The FTX polycule would like a word…<p>Beautiful work!

Intimacy being almost the exact same number as warfare is pretty sad.<p>On a more joyous note, it&#x27;s really neat projet, thanks.

Compared to my parents, I spent 20x the time parenting (the new normal) and I&#x27;m not sure these stats reflect that.<p>Our global birthrate is a unconcerning 2.3 and worldwide restroom use continues apace.<p>Sex is edging out smoking but not by much.

Why do the estimated births&#x2F;deaths per second counters have so much flicker? Surely you don&#x27;t actually believe that the expected number of births&#x2F;deaths per second fluctuates at 1dp precision multiple times per second?

Fun suggestion: move the &quot;Live Viewers&quot; counter to be a real entry on the site at the bottom.<p>Viewing this site: 40 (0.0000005%)

Accurate, saw restroom use tick up 1

Funny how intimacy and warfare have the same numbers

I&#x27;m surprised at the surface difference between birth and death rate because we&#x27;re told the aggregate rate of increase is declining. The difference between the two suggests birth outruns death by 2:1 which feels steep for something which will max out in 2050.<p>I realise sub-saharan Africa continues to be high birthrate and is a huge component of world population, but the trend of increased economic activity to lower birth rate is really high worldwide, and most western economies in the OECD would be in decline, were it not for migration.

Not sure how I should understand `Warfare` and `Intimacy` having the exact same numbers ;-)

Cool idea but for the actual results I have no confidence in it because it has grounding shown like pop sizes, locations &#x2F; timezones etc, it&#x27;s just vibe coded with stuff like this: &quot;&#x2F;&#x2F; Approx 7.68 hours - fundamental physiological need.&quot;, &quot;label: &#x27;Nutrition&#x27;, &#x2F;&#x2F; User&#x27;s concise label&quot;. I don&#x27;t see any real population dynamics.

There is something sobering and humbling at “seeing” 2 people die every second.<p>To realize that entire lifetimes of memory and experiences are disappearing so quickly.<p>Though I’ve probably seen that stat before, the site does a good job of making it feel “live” with the updating population count and live stats on everything else.

Seeing the population still increase, this must be completely attributed to Africa: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Total_fertility_rate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Total_fertility_rate</a>

Wonderful. I always found the idea of billions of people particularly famous people doing something (anything) simultaneously as me, unbelievable for some reason. This somehow brings this issue front and center on a global scale. Well done.

Am I the only one surprised &amp; perplexed about a phone representing “leisure”?

&gt;The initial concept was explored with the help of AI (specifically, Gemini), iterating through prompts to develop the core logic for a dynamic simulation. The goal was to create something engaging, all within a single HTML file – a testament to what can be achieved with focused iteration and modern web technologies.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humans.maxcomperatore.com&#x2F;why.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;humans.maxcomperatore.com&#x2F;why.html</a>

<p><pre><code> Intimacy 20,580,717 (0.25%) Warfare 8,582,378 (0.10%) </code></pre> Glad to see &quot;Make Love Not War&quot; still works.

Some stats I&#x27;d like to see added:<p>* number of people in the air (Grok estimates 1.2 to 1.8 million, or 0.015% – 0.022%), but flightradar24.com probably has a better estimate.<p>* number of people in space (13 according to whoisinspace.com, so 0.00000016%)<p>* number of people at sea (?)

Just the other day, walking through a sleepy country town (Hawks Nest, NSW, AU), I was explaining to my partner how I&#x27;d love to have an AR overlay of the town that told me, statistically, what each person in each house was doing.<p>Ideally it&#x27;d consider an estimate of the house&#x27;s value and use vision to assess the real-time appearance of the property to further hone its model.<p>If you could do that next, please. Oh and buy me a Vision Pro. Cheers.

Your design of this page and your whole website is beautiful. How many years experience do you have with front end development?

Love it.<p>If you plan on adding to it, would be cool see (maybe via heatmap) where the births&#x2F;deaths are happening.

Only 6-7% of people are sleeping? Wouldn&#x27;t you expect that to be more like 30%?

Reassuring to know there are 129 million bottoms joining me in bathrooms about now.

Could easily extend the idea to zoom in on the map, constraining to various region sizes... The information gets a little &quot;washed out&quot; when you combine all the timezones into one blob.

6 million intimate? Wonder how much this tracks stats by country, so as day&#x2F;night moves along, can see bigger&#x2F;lesser swings in the trend.<p>Or is it just a flat ratio to population.

Is it plausible that the order of magnitude of those going to the restroom and those being intimate would be the same?<p>My life is very different if so!

Is anyone else shocked by how low the Paid Work and Education bars are? Is there a way to see this for specific countries?

Wonderful work! If 0.13% are in jail, how many do you estimate are positively changing the world?

Roughly the same number of people who make love, make war. That&#x27;s sad.

Pretty interesting project. A dynamic snapshot of human activity

16% are doing paid work? I always assumed that would be higher

cool idea and nice execution! one thought: maybe make the time scale on your mini graphs a little longer so you can see larger changes?

That does it, I&#x27;m going back to sleep.

Great execution. Interesting to think about the peaks and troughs of global activity.<p>The Sleep numbers make a big claim: Right after Europe and West Africa have woken up (i.e. now) it says only 350 million people (4.25%) are sleeping. It&#x27;s 01:08 in Anchorage and 06:08 in Recife. Over 1 billion people live in the Americas between these two time zones. Seems implausible that only a third of them are sleeping?

the declining number of people engaged in warfare is the saddest statistic.