Worldometers.info - World Statistics to Make You Think

If you’re into stats, Worldometers is filled with them. The site, which is overseen by researchers, academics and volunteers, provides real-time statistics about health, economies, population, demographics, and energy. Statistics of the month are placed at the top of the page—this month they list the price of a bottle of beer in Zimbabwe: Z$ 3,344,562, an explanation follows if you click on the link. Other interesting stats include military expenditure by governments worldwide, book titles published this year, forest lost this year, and dollars spent on dieting in the USA this year alone. The numbers are thought provoking. Sources are carefully selected from the most prestigious institutions in the world.

“Worldometers is managed 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.
Sources are carefully selected to include only data published by the most reputable organizations and statistical offices in the world.

The counters that display the real-time numbers are based on Worldometers’ algorithm that processes the latest and most accurate statistical data available together with its estimated progression to compute the current millisecond number to be displayed on each counter based on the specific time set on each visitor’s computer clock.”

This site provides intriguing and important information. It gives you perspective. Those ignorant about word affairs will find these numbers prove to be quite enlightening.

The site is interesting, but how accurate is it? How will they get people interested? They would do well to create a widget so users can show selected stats on their own sites or blogs.