WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

Population, total

read at 2025 · 1 year old

Midyear resident population, counting all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship.

World median

6.5mpeople

Countries reporting

217/ 217

Observations, all years

14.3k

The median is computed across the 217 countries reporting in 2025 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. This indicator has no better end — it is reported as context, not as a score.

How the world is spread · 2025

189 countries between 9.5k and 52.3m people13 countries between 52.3m and 104.6m people7 countries between 104.6m and 156.9m people1 country between 156.9m and 209.1m people3 countries between 209.1m and 261.4m people1 country between 261.4m and 313.7m people1 country between 313.7m and 366.0m people1 country between 1.36bn and 1.41bn people1 country between 1.41bn and 1.46bn peopleMEDIAN9.5k1.46bn
217 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 255.2m people

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2171960: 216 of 217 countries reported1961: 216 of 217 countries reported1962: 216 of 217 countries reported1963: 216 of 217 countries reported1964: 216 of 217 countries reported1965: 216 of 217 countries reported1966: 216 of 217 countries reported1967: 216 of 217 countries reported1968: 216 of 217 countries reported1969: 216 of 217 countries reported1970: 216 of 217 countries reported1971: 216 of 217 countries reported1972: 216 of 217 countries reported1973: 216 of 217 countries reported1974: 216 of 217 countries reported1975: 216 of 217 countries reported1976: 216 of 217 countries reported1977: 216 of 217 countries reported1978: 216 of 217 countries reported1979: 216 of 217 countries reported1980: 216 of 217 countries reported1981: 216 of 217 countries reported1982: 216 of 217 countries reported1983: 216 of 217 countries reported1984: 216 of 217 countries reported1985: 216 of 217 countries reported1986: 216 of 217 countries reported1987: 216 of 217 countries reported1988: 216 of 217 countries reported1989: 216 of 217 countries reported1990: 217 of 217 countries reported1991: 217 of 217 countries reported1992: 217 of 217 countries reported1993: 217 of 217 countries reported1994: 217 of 217 countries reported1995: 217 of 217 countries reported1996: 217 of 217 countries reported1997: 217 of 217 countries reported1998: 217 of 217 countries reported1999: 217 of 217 countries reported2000: 217 of 217 countries reported2001: 217 of 217 countries reported2002: 217 of 217 countries reported2003: 217 of 217 countries reported2004: 217 of 217 countries reported2005: 217 of 217 countries reported2006: 217 of 217 countries reported2007: 217 of 217 countries reported2008: 217 of 217 countries reported2009: 217 of 217 countries reported2010: 217 of 217 countries reported2011: 217 of 217 countries reported2012: 217 of 217 countries reported2013: 217 of 217 countries reported2014: 217 of 217 countries reported2015: 217 of 217 countries reported2016: 217 of 217 countries reported2017: 217 of 217 countries reported2018: 217 of 217 countries reported2019: 217 of 217 countries reported2020: 217 of 217 countries reported2021: 217 of 217 countries reported2022: 217 of 217 countries reported2023: 217 of 217 countries reported2024: 217 of 217 countries reported2025: 217 of 217 countries reported19602025
Best year 1990 with 217 of 217 · most recent 2025 with 217. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2025

India1.46bn
China1.41bn
United States341.8m
Indonesia285.7m
Pakistan255.2m
Nigeria237.5m
Brazil212.8m
Bangladesh175.7m

Lowest · 2025

Tuvalu9.5k
Naoero12.0k
Palau17.7k
St. Martin (French part)24.9k
San Marino34.1k
Marshall Islands36.3k
Monaco38.3k
British Virgin Islands39.7k

Read with care

  • · Between censuses this is projected forward, so intercensal years are estimates and can be revised sharply when a new census lands.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →