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Live counters for population, emissions, water use and books published, ticking faster than is entirely comfortable.
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Worldometer sits in Curious Facts under Learn, filed as instant.
About this category: Records, comparisons, scale demonstrations and weird knowledge. The category most likely to produce a sentence beginning "did you know".
Yes. Worldometer is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Worldometer without signing up for anything.
Yes. Worldometer works on phones as well as desktop browsers.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Instant": Good within five seconds of loading.
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