Everyday Life in Real Time
The statistics shown are worldwide unless otherwise indicated - learn more here.
Use the dropdowns to change categories (note: the "Not so
Great"
category is grim),
laugh at some outlandish units of measurement,
and change the timescale (24 hours, 7 days, etc).
Click the counters for sources and hand-picked articles and videos on the topic.
Commercial airline flights
Births
Uber trips taken
Beer brewed
Packages delivered
Source 1 with
a worldwide parcel delivery market report and carrier volume visualizations by country
Source 2
Marvel at a
fully automated grocery picking and packing warehouse with 2,300 robots (video)
Inside the
UPS worldport shipping superhub, the world's largest automated package handling facility (45
min. video)
Seafood eaten
Source 1
Source 2
- a fascinating look at the fishing industry with 30+ interactive charts, graphs, and maps
The aquaculture (farmed seafood) revolution
A deep dive into the aquaculture industry in Maine
Deep sea
fishing (1.5 hour documentary video on a fishing/packaging vessel)
63 fantastic
fish facts
$ of illicit drugs purchased (USD)
Credit/Debit card transactions
Cups of coffee enjoyed
Youtube videos watched
Cigarettes smoked
Hours worked
Whatsapp messages sent
Emails sent
Water used (residential, commercial, and agricultural)
The human body
Skin cells shed by your body (aka dust)
Red blood cells produced by your body
New cells produced by your body
Hemogloblin molecules created in your body (inside the new red blood cells)
Oxygen atoms attached to these new hemoglobins
ATP molecules produced in your body
The scale of industry
Vehicles manufactured
Cans of Spam produced
Smartphones manufactured
Pairs of shoes purchased
Milk produced (all animals)
Aluminum cans manufactured
Plastic bottles molded
Meat produced (all animals except fish and insects)
Plastic created
Petroleum extracted
Source 1 with detailed breakdown (mainly US info)
Source 2
How an oil refinery works
An incredible
video tour of an offshore oil drilling platform
A detailed
history of oil drilling and innovations in the US
Interactive map of oil and gas extraction sites worldwide
Interactive map of oil pipelines worldwide
The science of cracking, isomerisation and reforming
Chicken eggs produced
Corn harvested
Steel manufactured
Source 1 - detailed world report
Source 2
A deep dive
into everything steel
The Bessemer process, a cornerstone of the industrial
revolution
Take a tour
of a steel mill (video)
15 different
steel forging machines in action (video)
How steel
forged an American empire (history channel, 1.5 hour video)
Interactive map showing the details of over 1,100 steel mills worldwide
Concrete produced
Coal mined
Source 1 with market analysis
Source 2 by country and type of coal
Source 3 with chart by country
Interactive map showing the details of 6,000+ coal mines
worldwide
The bucket
wheel excavator, the world's largest terrestrial vehicle (short video)
Life as a coal miner in the 1890's
Underground
mechanized longwall coal mining (video)
Hidden realities of life
Distance you have traveled through space
Stuff made
Cardiac pacemakers manufactured
Electric cars manufactured
Motorcycles manufactured
TV's manufactured
Smartphones manufactured
Tires manufactured
Hydrochloric acid synthesized
Single use cups made
Microprocessors fabricated
Stuff mined
Berylium mined
Silver mined
Cobalt mined
Nickel mined
Bauxite mined (aluminum ore)
Iron Ore mined
Somewhat popular
Bottles of Tabasco hot sauce sold
Dunkin Donuts coffees sold (retail only, non-grocery)
McDonald's customers served
Lego pieces molded
Servings of Coca-Cola products consumed
The internet
Music tracks added to streaming services
Hours of public Youtube content uploaded
Google searches
Total internet traffic volume (GB)
Stuff moved
Commercial freight transported by air
Commercial freight transported by ship
Earth
Wildfires started
Meteorites and space debris entering the atmosphere
Flashes of lightning
Bee hummingbird wing flaps in flight
New trees sprouted
Mississippi river water dischared into the gulf
Amazon river water discharged into the ocean
Water evaporated from the Amazon rainforest
Precipitation fallen (rain, snow, etc.)
Space
Distance traveled around the sun
Distance traveled at the speed of light
Years of global energy production generated by the Sun
Nuclear bombs of solar energy released (1.2 megaton weapon)
Source 1 -
TNT equivalent
Source 2 -
How does the sun produce energy
History
channel: Secrets of the Sun (45 min. episode)
The solar energy trapped by global warming
Calculated as a 1.2 megaton nuclear weapon
Calculated as a 1.2 megaton nuclear weapon
Humans in motion
Calories eaten (kcal)
Steps taken
Total heartbeats
Human curiosities
Sets of twins born
Breast implant surgeries completed
Cataract surgeries completed
Vinyl albums sold in the US
Wikipedia edits
Sperm cells produced by a male
Visits to Pornhub
Skin cells shed by your body ( aka dust)
Toliet paper rolls used
Source 1 with fascinating TP infographics
Tolietguru.com - more
history,
historical photos, and information on toliets than you should ever want to know
How a
tree
trunk becomes toliet paper (video)
A
tour of one
of the world's largest water treatment plants (video)
A
deep dive
into how wastewater treatment plants operate (6 hr. video series)
Pieces of gum chewed
Farts
Human eye blinks
Mostly random
Air "leaked" into space
Speed of light circles the earth
Cyanide produced (hydrogen cyanide)
Health
Suicides
Deaths from mosquito-borne diseases
Amputations needed after trauma
New cancer cases
Deaths
The darker side of humanity
People newly jailed or imprisoned in the US
Source
1 with an excellent article (and infographics) on the causes and myths of mass
incarceration in
the US
Source 2 with superb
quality
interactive maps and graphs showing prison populations by state, county, crime, type of
facilities, etc.
12 craziest prison escapes of all time
10
unwritten rules of prison - Larry Lawton, retired multi-million dollar jewel thief
(video)
An interview on what life is like in America's highest
security
supermax prison with a former prisoner
Interactive map of prisons and jails in the US
World military budget (USD)
Animals
Cattle slaughtered
Pigs slaughtered
Animals (except insects) turned into roadkill
Animals killed by cats in the US
Chickens slaughtered
Accidents and natural disasters
Motor vehicle deaths
Environmental issues
Trees cut down
Source
1 - new study estimates that earth is home to 3 trillion trees, half as many as when
human civilization arose
Do trees talk to each other?
15 weird and wonderful tree facts
Do
trees have genders?
An HD
photo gallery of 25 unique and unusual tree species
How
photosynthesis works (video)
Forested
area per
country and how land use has changed over time (interactive maps and graphs)
Food wasted
Solid waste generated (all types inc. commercial)
Coal mined
Source 1 with market analysis
Source 2 by country and type of coal
Source 3 with chart by country
Interactive map showing the details of 6,000+ coal
mines
worldwide
The
bucket
wheel excavator, the world's largest terrestrial vehicle (short video)
Life as a coal miner in the 1890's
Underground
mechanized longwall coal mining (video)