Your story starts here.
Select your country and birth year to turn decades of population data into one human story.
PULSEBehind the data →
Your human story
8 billion people.
One of them is you.
Choose a birthplace and year. We'll show you how the world changed around your lifetime.
Your life inside humanity
Discover your
HumanPulse.
Choose when and where your story began. We'll show how the world—and your country—has changed since then.
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Your lifetime in context
How has humanity
changed since then?
Choose a year—from 1960 onward—to see how much the human population has changed since that moment.
2000 → 202424 years of change
Since 2000, Earth has added 1,970,105,945 people—a population increase of 31.9%.
People added1.97B
Average each year82.09M
Then vs. latest75.8%
Uses official annual World Bank totals. “Latest” refers to the newest published year, not a live estimate.
Your place in the pulse
Where do you fit
in humanity?
Choose a country to turn its population into a story you can understand—and share.
INDLatest official total · 2024
India
1,450,935,791
South Asia
Global rank#1of 10 places
Share of humanity17.82%of the world
Human perspective1 in 6people worldwide
In a world of 10,0001,782would live here
Put simply
About 1 out of every 6 people on Earth lives in India.
Side by side
Compare two countries.
See the population gap, scale, and combined place in humanity—without doing the math yourself.
INDGlobal rank #1
India
1,450,935,791South Asia · 17.82% of humanity
CHNGlobal rank #2
China
1,408,975,000East Asia & Pacific · 17.31% of humanity
India has 1.03× the population of China, a difference of 41.96M people.
Combined population2.86B35.13% of humanity