Worldometer
worldometers.info
Live counters and statistics on world population, health, energy, food, the environment and more, along with country-level figures.
Why it is useful
A quick way to find headline global and national numbers in one place. The live counters are a vivid way to show scale, and the country pages are handy for comparisons.
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