Worldometer is run by an international team of developers, researchers, and volunteers with the goal of making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world.
It is published by a small digital media company with no political, governmental, or corporate affiliations. Moreover, we have no investors, donors, grants, or backers of any kind. We are truly independent and self-financed through automated programmatic advertising sold in real-time across multiple ad exchanges
Worldometer has been recognized as one of the best free reference websites by the American Library Association (ALA), the oldest and largest library association in the world.
Over its 20-year history, Worldometer's statistics have been utilized by governments around the world and prestigious institutions including the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), CERN, Oxford University Press, Wiley, Pearson, the Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science & Technology, Science Museum of Virginia, and major media outlets like the BBC; leading corporations such as Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Dell, Kaspersky, Amazon Alexa, Google Translate, and IBM as well as in events such as the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), World Expo, the U2 concert, and many others.
Worldometer is cited as a source in over 15,000 published books and more than 30,000 professional journal articles.
In recent years, Worldometer also became the world's leading aggregator of coronavirus data by rising to the challenge of delivering the most accurate, comprehensive, and timely global coronavirus statistics to users and institutions worldwide - an unprecedented undertaking that was extremely challenging during the chaotic early months when no other platform could match Worldometer's scope and reliability.
Trusted by governments, institutions, and billions of individuals globally, the site became the definitive source for coronavirus data and one of the top 30 most-trafficked websites worldwide, its reliability proven as users verified its unmatched accuracy and comprehensiveness against primary sources and alternatives. The platform was directly relied upon by governments and institutions worldwide, including the US White House Coronavirus Task Force, the UK Government, Johns Hopkins CSSE, and the governments of Pakistan, Thailand, Vietnam, among many others. Learn more.
For the live counters on the home page, we generate a real-time estimate using our proprietary algorithm, which processes the latest data and projections provided by the most reputable organizations and statistical offices in the world.
Why Live Counters? When using static numbers to describe numerical change over time, we lose the ability to convey the relationship between the magnitude of change and the passage of time - an essential aspect of how we experience change in real life. Static numbers fail to capture the frequency and timing of events, the rhythm that underpins nature and helps us understand the physical phenomena around us. Only through live counters can we convey these dynamic elements and truly comprehend the magnitude of quantitative change as it unfolds over time.
Within the Real Time Statistics Project, we have pioneered two other methods of visualizing data: the Single Unit Isotype and the Live Isotype.
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