Diary of Planet Earth
All figures are interpolated estimates from the United Nations World Population Prospects 2024 medium projection, not a literal census.
8,300,678,395
GLOBAL CHANGE TODAY
BIRTHS0
+4.20/s
DEATHS0
−2.02/s
NET GROWTH0
+2.18/s
THIS YEAR
BIRTHS0
DEATHS0
GROWTH0
ANNUAL RATE+0.83%
20308.57 B
20509.66 B
Astronomy Picture of the Day
NASA APOD
Oct 31 · 2026
Night on a Spooky Planet
Explanation: What spooky planet is this? Planet Earth on a dark and stormy night, of course. The ghostly scene was photographed at Hverir, a geothermally active area found along northeastern Iceland's volcanic landscape. Triggered by solar activity, geomagnetic storms have unleashed energetic particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field. Penetrating the planet's upper atmosphere at high latitudes, the particles create…
