World Pulse
What the world knows
about itself.
Every country, measured against real indicators — and every gap where nobody measured at all. The holes in this planet are not missing pixels. They are missing knowledge.
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Life expectancy · 2024
This is how long people live.
Life expectancy at birth. Almost every country reports it, so the planet is nearly whole.
Internet use · 2024
This is who is connected.
Share of people using the internet — a measure that did not exist within living memory.
Child stunting · 2022
This is which children go hungry.
Chronic undernutrition in under-fives. Watch the planet thin out: this one depends on surveys most countries rarely run.
Coverage · Life expectancy
And this is where we stopped counting.
Everything lit below has no figure at all for this indicator. Most dashboards colour these countries grey and move on, which reads as “low”. It isn't low. It is unknown.
Countries reporting
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Life expectancy, 2024. Figures from the World Bank's World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, this site shows nothing rather than a guess.