As odd as it sounds, this post has been a dream of mine for a very long time. When I was about 5 or 6, I remember asking my father how many people were on the planet, and he said to me, “It’s impossible to be exact, the number is constantly changing.” After that, I remember just wondering what it would be like to see, in the simplest form an exact count of how many people there were on Earth, and just how quickly that number would change in front of my eyes. The site Breathing Earth does just that, with a little more precision. One the page, you can see (not in real time, but by statistical estimation) how many people are born and die in each country all across the globe. Check the method by clicking the picture above.