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Genius data collection plot for mapping device IDs to age and nationality

Sweet. I’m a 100yo female from Uruguay

I'm a 100yo man from Kyrgyzstan

I’m a 0 year old from Antarctica

I a 1000 year old eye from Mordor.

Do you get out much?

Bug: How/Why would the "People older than you" number be increasing? The "People younger than you" number is the one that should be increasing due to new births and the older than should be decreasing due to people passing away. It's increasing with the same +3 that the world population clock is increasing by.

> How/Why would the "People older than you" number be increasing?

Resurrection ?

Are you moving away from Earth at a speed approaching the speed of light? If so, I have a possible explanation.

I think you read graph wrong.

If you are let’s say born in 1990 there were x people born this year.

Before 1990 there were boomers whose numbers each a year was higher so more people born like in 1954 for example 1.2x.

Nowadays less people are born like in 2015 that is 0.8x.

That is why there is still more older people even if they die, there is much less new people born than born in the past.

Cute but could work without PII so precise they can open a credit in your name. Be careful folks.

Here is a handy test link

https://mobile.population.io/#/2000/01/01/female/United%20St...

Seems to be broken for me?

vendor.js:7 Mixed Content: The page at 'https://population.io/' was loaded over HTTPS, but requested an insecure XMLHttpRequest endpoint 'http://api.povertyclock.staging.population.io/1.0/poverty/wo...'. This request has been blocked; the content must be served over HTTPS.

I don't understand the "you'll be the Xth billionth person the be alive in the world" at all. How does this number go up over time? When you're born, how can you be the "first" person to be alive? How am I heading towards eventually being the 9 billionth person alive?

I guess it means "oldest person?" If so, why not just say that?

Clicking on the snake chart thing also makes the age histograms on the left move to arbitrary places. I click on the dot around 43, and the age chart shows 41. I then click on the dot around 50 and the age chart shows 8.

Seeing my calculated death date makes me :(

Same, this is depressing

They just need to estimate my taxes for completeness.

Doesn't seem to work. I'm apparently older then 100% of people and 0% of my country.

As an addition to this data, you can also see my small project [1] on correlations between data from different countries of the world

[1]: http://correlations.world

Love this kinda data visualisation, where the users are in the context. Can anyone suggest any other interesting data visualisation in this line?

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