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US national debt$40.26T+$88.82 billion since 30 Sep 2026Treasury · 1 Oct 2026 · STATISTICWorld population now…ESTIMATE moving by births minus deaths, 2.29 a secondWorld Bank, mid-2025 estimateUSD to EUR0.89091 USD buys 4.7% more EUR than a year agoECB · 2 Oct 2026 · daily reference rate
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Births today

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Deaths today

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World population now

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+… births minus deaths today

How these are computed

Population now: a projection. The World Bank's estimate for the middle of 2025 (8,215,424,893 on 1 July 2025), carried forward by births minus deaths at the rates below (2.29 people a second). Nobody migrates into or out of the world as a whole, so births minus deaths is all of its change, and the three counters add up. It assumes those rates still hold; it is not a count, and a newer estimate will replace it.

Births and deaths: the World Bank's crude birth rate (16.27 per 1,000) and death rate (7.55 per 1,000) for 2024, applied to the population now and spread evenly over the year: 4.28 births and 1.98 deaths a second. It assumes 2024's rates still hold. DERIVED from two ESTIMATES.

"Today" starts at midnight on your own clock. "During your visit" starts when you opened this page. Nothing here is a count of real births or deaths.

Why not the published growth rate? The World Bank also publishes a growth rate for 2025, 0.91% a year (2.37 people a second). It is a separate series and does not exactly agree with births minus deaths (2.29 a second), so the clock uses births minus deaths for all three counters and they add up.

Around the world

Earthquake (size is magnitude) Tropical cyclone Flood Drought Volcano Wildfire Severe weather Red or Extreme Orange or Severe Green

Earthquakes: USGS, magnitude 4.5+ or significant. Hazards: GDACS Orange and Red. Weather: NWS Severe and Extreme, United States only; alerts without a drawn area are in the list but not on the map. Click anywhere on the map to explore that place.

Latest changes

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NEW reached this page since you last looked. The tag and the time are the source's: an earthquake occurred, an alert was issued or updated. Raised, lowered, revised and ended are changes Yank recorded between its checks.

World numbers

Official figures and estimates, each for the date or year it is for. A projection, where offered, is labelled and kept apart.

US national debt

$40.26TSTATISTIC

Latest reported · 1 Oct 2026 · U.S. Treasury

Change since the previous report (30 Sep 2026): +$88.82 billionDERIVED

2025-10-01low $37.85T · high $40.26T2026-10-01

Up $2.40 trillion since 1 Oct 2025 (1y).

Evidence & method

The Treasury's Debt to the Penny: total public debt outstanding of $40,260,641,972,390.03 for 1 Oct 2026, as published, to the cent. It is never counted forward between records.

DERIVED: Total Public Debt Outstanding on 2026-10-01 ($40,260,641,972,390.03) minus on 2026-09-30 ($40,171,825,101,340.31) = $88,816,871,049.72.

DERIVED (1y): Total Public Debt Outstanding on 2026-10-01 ($40,260,641,972,390.03) minus on 2025-10-01 ($37,864,059,502,725.70) = $2,396,582,469,664.33.

The chart plots the Treasury's daily records (every fifth before the last 400 days). Source: U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data (public domain).

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World population

8.22BESTIMATE

World Bank · mid-year estimate for 2025

Change on 2024: +74.5M (0.92%)DERIVED

2001low 6.24B · high 8.22B2025
Evidence & method

The World Bank's estimate of the world's population for 2025: 8,215,424,893 people. An estimate for the middle of that year, built mostly on the UN's World Population Prospects; not a count, and not today's number.

DERIVED: 8,215,424,893 minus 8,140,897,523 (2024).

Source: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0), updated 13 Jul 2026.

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Births and deaths a day

≈362,000 births

≈167,900 deaths

A day on average in 2024 DERIVED from World Bank ESTIMATES

Evidence & method

Births: 8,140,897,523 people x 16.27 per 1,000 / 366 days (2024).

Deaths: 8,140,897,523 people x 7.55 per 1,000 / 366 days (2024).

An average day in 2024, computed by Yank from the World Bank's population estimate and its crude birth and death rates for that year. Not a count of today. Source: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0).

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Money

Exchange rates against a base you choose. A currency only rises or falls against another, so every change names both.

ECB daily reference rates for 2 Oct 2026, set around 16:00 CET on working days and published for information only. Not live quotes. Rates between two currencies other than the euro are computed through it (DERIVED).

Currency and rateChange in what 1 USD buys
CurrencyRate1 day1 month1 yearPin and yank
EUR euro1 USD = 0.8909 EUR+0.7%+3.1%+4.7%Yank ↗
JPY Japanese yen1 USD = 157.67 JPY-0.2%-1.2%+7.4%Yank ↗
GBP pound sterling1 USD = 0.7575 GBP+0.2%+2.1%+2.1%Yank ↗
CNY Chinese yuan renminbi1 USD = 6.7046 CNY0.00%-0.3%-5.8%Yank ↗
CAD Canadian dollar1 USD = 1.4240 CAD-0.04%+2.3%+2.1%Yank ↗
MXN Mexican peso1 USD = 18.3346 MXN+0.9%+7.8%-0.2%Yank ↗
INR Indian rupee1 USD = 96.3247 INR0.00%+1.4%+8.6%Yank ↗
CHF Swiss franc1 USD = 0.8266 CHF-1.0%+1.6%+3.9%Yank ↗
AUD Australian dollar1 USD = 1.4411 AUD+0.2%+3.0%-4.8%Yank ↗
BRL Brazilian real1 USD = 5.2214 BRL+0.6%+1.4%-1.7%Yank ↗

A positive change means 1 USD buys more of that currency than it did then. Pin a pair with ★ to keep it at the top on this device.

Convert, and what it bought a year ago

USD157,674.83

On 2 Oct 2025, 1,000 USD bought 146,784.07 JPY; at the rate for 2 Oct 2026 the same amount buys 157,674.83 JPY (+7.4%). 1 US dollar buys 7.4% more Japanese yen than a year ago: 157.67 on 2 Oct 2026, 146.78 on 2 Oct 2025. Computed through the euro. Yank this change ↗

Space weather

NOAA's scales and messages. What is observed and what is forecast are labelled apart.

Geomagnetic storms

NOAA G scale, 0 to 5

G0 noneOBSERVED

Now, as NOAA stamped it 2 Oct 21:39 UTC

Highest in the past 24 hours: G0 · radio blackouts R0 · solar radiation S0 OBSERVED

  • 2 Oct 2026G1 minor · R1 to R2 radio blackouts 5% · S1+ 1%FORECAST
  • 3 Oct 2026G0 none · R1 to R2 radio blackouts 5% · S1+ 1%FORECAST
  • 4 Oct 2026G1 minor · R1 to R2 radio blackouts 5% · S1+ 1%FORECAST
Evidence & method

NOAA's own scales: G for geomagnetic storms, R for radio blackouts, S for solar radiation storms. "Now" and the past 24 hours are observed; today and the next two days are NOAA's forecast, with its probabilities as it gives them.

Planetary K-index

0 to 9, every three hours

Kp 0.67OBSERVED

For the three hours from 2 Oct 18:00 UTC, from 8 stations

2026-09-25 00:00low 0.3 · high 4.02026-10-02 18:00

Highest in NOAA's forecast for the coming days: Kp 4.67, 2 Oct 21:00 UTC FORECAST

Evidence & method

The chart shows only three-hour periods that had ended when Yank read the feed. NOAA's product labels some later periods "estimated" with its forecast's values, so any period that had not ended is shown as a FORECAST, whatever the feed calls it. Kp 5 is a G1 storm on NOAA's scale.

Alerts and warnings

NOAA SWPC ↗

  • OBSERVEDSWPC ALERT (a threshold was reached)31 h ago

    CONTINUED ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000pfu

    ALTEF3, serial 3750 · issued 1 Oct 14:30 UTC

  • ALERTSWPC WATCH (expected)31 h ago

    WATCH: Geomagnetic Storm Category G1 Predicted

    WATA20, serial 1128 · issued 1 Oct 14:28 UTC

  • OBSERVEDSWPC ALERT (a threshold was reached)2 days ago

    ALERT: Electron 2MeV Integral Flux exceeded 1,000pfu

    ALTEF3, serial 3749 · issued 30 Sep 10:04 UTC

  • OBSERVEDSWPC ALERT (a threshold was reached)3 days ago

    ALERT: Type IV Radio Emission

    ALTTP4, serial 718 · issued 30 Sep 03:39 UTC

  • OBSERVEDSWPC ALERT (a threshold was reached)3 days ago

    ALERT: Type II Radio Emission

    ALTTP2, serial 1529 · issued 30 Sep 03:38 UTC

Evidence & method

SWPC's words, translated into Yank's: an SWPC ALERT means a threshold was reached, so it is OBSERVED here; a WARNING or a WATCH says something is expected, so it is an ALERT here, never the event; a SUMMARY says what happened. SWPC's own headline is quoted.

Source: NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center (public domain). Yank is not affiliated with or endorsed by NOAA.

Compare places

People, money and crime, side by side, each figure with its own year. Countries for now; regions and cities where a source supports them.

FigureUnited StatesJapan
Population people ESTIMATE341.8M (2025)123.4M (2025)
Life expectancy at birth years ESTIMATE78.9 (2024)84.0 (2024)
Birth rate per 1,000 people a year ESTIMATE10.60 (2024)5.70 (2024)
Death rate per 1,000 people a year ESTIMATE9.00 (2024)13.30 (2024)

Life expectancy, years, by year · United States and Japan

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Countries for now: regional and city figures need sources Yank does not read yet. Every figure is the latest year the source has for that place, so two places can differ in year; the table says so when they do.

Recently ended

Coverage & sourcesUS weather only · air quality not connected
  • USGS read at 2 Oct 21:42 UTC. Worldwide earthquakes of magnitude 4.5 and above, and those the USGS lists as significant. U.S. Geological Survey, Earthquake Hazards Program (public domain).
  • GDACS read at 2 Oct 21:42 UTC. Worldwide cyclones, floods, droughts, volcanoes, wildfires and earthquakes GDACS rated Orange or Red. GDACS, the Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (CC BY 4.0).
  • NWS read at 2 Oct 21:42 UTC. United States alerts the NWS rates Severe or Extreme; other countries are not covered. U.S. National Weather Service (public domain).
  • U.S. Treasury record for 1 Oct 2026. Debt to the Penny, published each working day. Public domain.
  • The World clock's population is projected from the World Bank's mid-2025 estimate at its growth rate for that year; the Census Bureau's clock could not be read (census.gov refuses server requests).
  • World Bank estimates to 2025. Population, crude birth and death rates, life expectancy, GDP per person, inflation, annual. CC BY 4.0.
  • European Central Bank reference rates for 2 Oct 2026. Daily, around 16:00 CET on working days; not live.
  • NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center scales stamped 2 Oct 21:39 UTC. Scales, the planetary K-index and SWPC's messages. Public domain.
  • NOAA Aviation Weather Center: the weather beside a followed place is the nearest airport's latest observation (METAR). Public domain.
  • UNODC via the World Bank 196 countries with a homicide figure. Intentional homicides per 100,000, each country's latest year. CC BY 4.0.
  • Air quality (EPA AirNow) not connected yet: it needs a free key from the EPA. Until then nothing about air is shown.
  • Yank's own record of changes could not be read on this check, so no change between updates is shown.

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