The Loading Bar

Watch the world load

Drag the slider from 1900 to 2076. Each bar fills to the real global figure for that year. Tap any bar to see its curve: slow, then sudden, then levelling off. Past today you’re in the next fifty years, where only projections published by named bodies appear, shown striped. Where nobody credible has projected a bar, it stops at today.

The ten that matter most

Inspired by the way Hans Rosling picked out the measures that matter most in Factfulness. Our own choice of ten, rebuilt from the latest open data: health, money, learning, the basics of a decent home, and a say in how you’re governed.

More bars

Clean power, the information ratchet, and two honest ones: women’s share of power is still loading, and the world’s wildlife is going the wrong way.

More to play with: Guess first, The world since you were born, and all tools.