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Right now on Earth
- 132,399,173babies born in 2025 (UN estimate)
- 63,135,984deaths in 2025 (UN estimate)
- 69,264,442more people at the end of 2025 than at the start
- 8,266,245,291people on 1 January 2026
Four things about today, in pictures. The rest of this site follows people over 150 years; this page is about this week.
In plain words
What is it?
Nobody counts the world's births and deaths as they happen. Any "live" population counter divides the UN's yearly estimate by the seconds in a year — so this page does not pretend to count people live.
What is measured right now is here: which countries have a public holiday today, the earthquakes the US Geological Survey recorded in the last day, by magnitude, the carbon dioxide in the air in ppm, and the world's temperature anomaly. Each is shown with the date it was last updated.
Why it matters to you
- A day off for billions. On some days, a large part of the world has a public holiday at once.
- The ground moves every day. Most earthquakes are too small to feel. The page shows those of magnitude 2.5 or more.
- The air keeps changing. Carbon dioxide is higher now than at any time since measurements began.
The whole Earth · since 1 January
How many babies have been born this year?
Babies born in 2026 so far
98,742,311
People added to the world in 2026 so far
51,319,476
About 363,000 babies are born each day this year, and about 174,300 people die each day: 63.6 million in the whole of 2026. The world grows by the difference.
These are not counts. They are the UN's estimates for the whole of 2026, spread evenly over the year and read at 00:00 UTC on 30 September 2026, when this page was made — they start moving as soon as your browser runs; real births and deaths come unevenly. Deaths are given as a daily average and never count up on this site.
A day off
How many people have a public holiday today?
Looking up today’s holidays…
How to read this: each square stands for 1 in every 100 people on Earth. Filled squares are the people who live somewhere with a public holiday today.
The ground
How many earthquakes were there in the last day?
Earthquake counts: Checking…
The air
How much carbon dioxide is in the air?
Carbon dioxide reading: Checking…
The warmth
How warm was last month?
Temperature reading: Checking…
Back to the count
How this rests on the census
The UN's 132,399,173 births of 2025 are an estimate, built from every country's birth registrations, surveys and censuses. A year on, the babies become the first column of the count: in mid-2025 the world had 129 million children under one.
under one year old everyone else
How to read this: one column for each year of age, from newborn babies on the left to people aged 100 and over on the right. The taller the column, the more people of that age were alive in mid-2025 — 8.23 billion in all, counted by the UN.
Questions
Questions people ask
How many babies are born each day?
About 363,000 a day on average in 2025, from the UN's estimate for the year.
How many people die each day?
About 173,000 a day on average in 2025, from the UN's estimate for the year.
Is the world population counted live?
No. Every live counter, anywhere, spreads the UN’s yearly estimate evenly over the year. The real count is done country by country, in censuses and registers.
Where does the earthquake list come from?
The US Geological Survey, which publishes every recorded earthquake within minutes. This page asks for it every few minutes.
Why does the carbon dioxide figure have a date?
It is measured continuously and published as a weekly average after checks, so the newest figure is a week or two old. The page always says which week it is.
Sources
Where these numbers come from
Checking…
| What | From | Newest reading | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earthquakes of magnitude 2.5 or more, worldwide, in the past 24 hours | U.S. Geological Survey · US Government work (public domain) | — | — |
| Carbon dioxide in the air at Mauna Loa, Hawaii, weekly average | NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory and Scripps Institution of Oceanography · US Government work (public domain) | — | — |
| Temperature of the Earth’s surface compared with 1951–1980, by month (GISTEMP v4) | NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies · US Government work (public domain) | — | — |
| National public holidays in 2026–2030, and how many people live in each country | holidays (a free calendar library) · MIT; people: UN World Population Prospects 2024 · CC BY 3.0 IGO | Worked out in advance | Checking… |
We check each source on a timer — earthquakes every 5 minutes, carbon dioxide every 6 hours, temperature every 12 hours — and keep the last good reading when a check fails. A reading too old to be current is shown in plain ink with its date instead of in colour.