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I am going to put my bad person hat and complain these are not real time statistics.

I doubt they have tapped into the feed of actual children being born and people dying, videogames sold or tweets sent.

I am going to assume that it is ticking up by the interpolated number each second based up what it did last week / month / year.

I would love for more actual real time data to be public.

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I'm certain no one believes these numbers are actually real time as per definition of real time, as it would be impossible to know. But yeah, even the title tag contains "Worldometer - real time world statistics" so if they cannot even avoid lying with the very first data that gets parsed by the browser, what's to say they don't lie about the other stats?

Being constructive - I would absolutely love to see a world where we could get this sort of information for real in real time (or lets just say, as of 1 hour ago or 5 minutes ago).

Potentially some of the data points are possible with current technology - I am looking at the 'number of tweets' as a point.

Anything beyond a completely centralized service (like twitter) is castle in the clouds levels of hard.

Maaaaaaaaybe the forst loss stat? Via satellite images?

Not being flippant but I have to ask what is the use case to have real time statistics?

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