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What's my place in the world population?
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- thematrixturtle 5y agoSeems to be buckling under the load, I'm getting timeouts and missing figures.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoFew minutes ago worked fine. Could be “the hacker news effect” ;-) try later.
- atraac 5y agoYeah it never stops loading for me as well right now. Will also try later.
- suprfnk 5y agoYes, because of some missing numbers I got the quite amusing sentence: “There are people older than you and people younger than you”
- danuker 5y ago"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair."
- sjmm1989 5y agoIt was a fall of delight, an autumn of auspiciousness. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
- 6510 5y agoSame here. To many people.
- siva7 5y agoKind of sad seeing that i am now older than half of the population and still feeling young.
- giuliomagnifico 5y agoYeah don’t use it if you feel depressed =]
- Semaphor 5y agoI’m older than 57% of the world, but only older than 36% of Germans, so I can keep feeling young here ;)
- pengaru 5y agolook at the bright side: you could be feeling sick and elderly.
- jstummbillig 5y agoWhy would that be sad?
- dkdbejwi383 5y agoBeing "old" but feeling young is probably the best combination there is.
- KineticLensman 5y agoBeing physically young (and healthy) but with older maturity, experience and confidence would be my ideal
- chasd00 5y agothey say youth is wasted on the young
- ASalazarMX 5y agoThey also say experience is a new comb you get when you're already bald.
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- jansan 5y agoDoes not work for me when clicking "go". I seem some 403 errors in the console, that's all.
- lifthrasiir 5y agoThere seems no statement about privacy, which seems necessary for a server-side application that accepts DOB, country and gender informations.
- yoaviram 5y agoWhat do you think this data can be used for?
- lifthrasiir 5y agoPersonally identifiable information (PII) doesn't necessarily have a meaning in isolation but can identify the personal identity when combined somehow. So any website that operates on PII needs to have some sort of privacy policy no matter what it does to PII.
- minewastaken 5y agoAs said by another poster, this data can be used with other information to identify you and potentially breach your security. There's a nice, and a little bit terrifying, podcast that goes in detail on techniques used to obtain and hack people that are worth hacking. (https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/112/ https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/112/) This episode specifically.
- danuker 5y agoThere is also a Facebook request that encodes your data (I used fake data here): https://www.facebook.com/tr/?id=1249359911880793&ev=PageView&dl=https%3A%2F%2Fpopulation.io%2F%23%2F1992%2F04%2F12%2Ffemale%2FSomalia%2Fsummary&rl=&if=false&ts=1647503380263&sw=1920&sh=1080&v=2.9.57&r=stable&ec=3&o=30&fbp=fb.1.1647503322047.652409202&it=1647503357261&coo=false&exp=p1&rqm=GET https://www.facebook.com/tr/?id=1249359911880793&ev=PageView...
- zwaps 5y agothis will be costly for them
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- rkagerer 5y agoDoes this submit your info to the server? If so, I'm not really interested in sharing my birthday, country and gender with some random site.
- renewiltord 5y agoIn the spirit of teaching a man to fish, here's how you find out: 1. Open the page in Chrome 2. Hit F12 3. Select the Network tab, ensure "Preserve Log" is on 4. Enter first value for each entry 5. Click Go 6. Wait for request to show up before page displays Report back if you feel like sharing
- jjulius 5y agoTIL! This'll be handy so damn often for me.
- alberto_ol 5y agoin Firefox?
- beebeepka 5y agoLiterally the same in FF and every other remotely recent non-cli browser out there.
- chupasaurus 5y agoSame, Persist Logs is available via cog menu.
- zaik 5y agoAdd some random error to your birthday. If your not using VPN or Tor every random site can already see your IP and geolocate it. You are likely male.
- Liquid_Fire 5y agoCountry of birth and current location can be different, even if not using a VPN.
- renewiltord 5y agoBloody hell. It makes one request per country for the graph and it's struggling under the load. Definitely should be Cloudflaring that stuff. It's just a `GET` and it isn't going to change that much for the same params.
- unnouinceput 5y agoYeah, kinda doubt it. Remember the number and then press refresh. You'll see it's just a pretty animation, not a live one. Also I am sure at least a few tens of million kids are not officially declared, especially in China, so I would say we are over 8 billions already.
- maury91 5y agoMaybe it will be good to have also regions other than countries, the website claims I will die at 89 years old and that data seems wrong for 3 reasons: 1. 3 out of 4 of my grandparents are still alive and are all over 90 years old 2. Living over 90y is quite common in my area, my neighbour is something like 105y and she still goes to cut wood on her own 3. Life expectancy tends to go up so I'm expected to live longer than my parents and grandparents edit: formatting
- tonyedgecombe 5y ago>3. Life expectancy tends to go up so I'm expected to live longer than my parents and grandparents I wouldn't be surprised to see that reverse in the coming years. The modern western diet isn't very healthy compared to what your grandparents grew up on.
- maury91 5y agoI believe my diet is not too different from the one of my grandparents, at least compared to their diet in the last 20 years ( I can't remember before I was 10, and I don't know what they eat before I was born ). The "modern diet" hasn't really catchup here yet
- unnouinceput 5y agoYou mean those grandparents who had childhood filled with debilitating diseases without vaccines and who were using asbestos in their young adult life? Pretty sure @maury91 going to live over 90 as he/she expects it. Genetics is still king in life expectancy.
- oblio 5y agoAsbestos, leaded gasoline, various pesticides like DDT and there's a long list of stuff we banned.
- tetris11 5y agoAnd a long list of new technologies thay we have no idea the long term effects of. I once confessed to a friend that I did not like my apartment being encircled with equidistant 5G towers due to possible standing waves, and he (probably rightfully) scoffed at me
- smcleod 5y agoexpected age -34.0 years left Hmm
- lnxg33k1 5y agoHow are you going to pay your debt?
- notapenny 5y agoI have to apologise to the parent commenter, I laughed inappropriately hard at that. Still, quite confronting to see how much time you have left statistically. For me it got me to change careers. I figured if I still had 30 work left before retirement, I might as well.
- sgt 5y agoI grant you one more year, my boy. Use it well.
- insaider 5y agoI made a similar site for calculating your probability of living to a certain age and also likely causes of death - https://deathcalculator.app/ https://deathcalculator.app/
- arvinsim 5y agoAwareness of mortality does seem to galvanize some people to action.
- usednet 5y agoApparently I have a 1239% chance of dying in the next year from self-harm and a 2481% chance from substance abuse. Seems about right.
- insaider 5y agoYea still a bit buggy on the causes lol...
- Venkatesh10 5y agoThe dropdown list for choosing the region is a huge mess. Sort it out please.
- aikinai 5y agoWould be interesting to see a picture of your place relative to all humans ever. I was shocked when I learned that approximately 7% of all humans ever are alive right now.
- notatoad 5y agoreally curious if they're calculating my life expectancy based on my age, or just based on average lifespan in my country.
- kwhitefoot 5y agoThere are a lot of other factors that make dramatic differences too. For instance, here in Norway: "Higher education - longer life expectancy There are large social inequalities in mortality in Norway, where people with higher income, education and a job generally have the lowest mortality. It has been highlighted as a paradox that these differences are just as high in the Nordic countries as elsewhere in Europe, despite well-developed welfare systems with the same rights for all (Dahl, 2014). Men with higher education have 6.4 years longer life expectancy than men with primary education. For women, the difference is 5 years. See figure 5. If someone is married, has a higher education and has a spouse with a similar education level, life expectancy is 8-9 years higher than for unmarried people with primary education (Kravdal 2017)." See https://www.fhi.no/en/op/hin/population/life-expectancy/ https://www.fhi.no/en/op/hin/population/life-expectancy/
- jotm 5y ago> a job There's your key. It's not "a job", the job matters a lot. Higher income and education most often means a job that's easier on the body, and also likely more mentally stimulating (shown to increase QoL at old age and lifespan).
- ranman 5y agoCool idea... not the best architecture. Tell me you don't know how to optimize webapps without telling me you don't know how to optimize webapps. Anyway just poking fun, hope the owner can figure out how to make things work.
- jsjohnst 5y agoAnd also tell me that you don’t test on either major mobile platforms.
- MisterSandman 5y agoYeah does not work ok Chrome properly on Android.
- mcv 5y agoAfter submitting the initial data, I'm getting an eternal spinner. Is the site struggling with the load?
- austinjp 5y ago> I'm getting an eternal spinner At first I thought this was some form of existential dread stemming from seeing the date of your death :)
- GlumWoodpecker 5y agoSame here on both Chromium and Firefox, even with uBlock and Pi-hole disabled. Seems to be the site.
- ikt 5y agoYeah it's very buggy, same thing is happening for me
- layer8 5y agoI’m not even getting a spinner.
- InitialLastName 5y agoI got that when I accidentally entered the month as a number. When I refreshed and used the drop-down to select the month, it loaded immediately.
- unkulunkulu 5y agoI cannot enter my son’s birth date, wanted to look at a hopeful picture :)
- willcipriano 5y agoSame idea, but for income: https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i Most people are blown away when they do this.
- shric 5y ago"If you have a household income of $33,000 (in a household of 2 adults) You are in the richest 9.9% of the global population" Really, almost 1 in 10 households with 2 people in the world make more than $33,000 USD/month after tax? Not convinced, this isn't even close. Edit: yes, I see now this is monthly. Leaving it as-is so the replies make sense.
- srvmshr 5y agoIn Tokyo Japan, with a very high COL, our family unit makes just shy of 100,000 USD. By our living standards we are lower middle-class. We don't own house, car, assets. We can't afford a pet yet (cat maybe, but I am allergic) and no major vacations except day trips. Yet this site says I am in the top 1%. Makes me hard to believe such stats sadly.
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- 5350-uiop-1130 5y agotakes about 2 minutes and only half the content loads in. this doesn't need to be built with javascript. would be better to make a single db request and refresh the page with my results instead of staring at a spinner while a million ajax requests flounder in the background.
- k8sToGo 5y agoIs JavaScript really the bottleneck here?
- QuantumSeed 5y agoPlease don't let an app tell you how long you will live; It's probably not good for your mental health.
- greyKnight 5y agoIt's just for fun. You can't take this kind of website serious. There is a website that I know since the 90's called The Death Clock (http://deathclock.com http://deathclock.com). It's pretty much the same website since then. The problem here is give your actual personal data to people you don't know how they will use it. So don't. Btw, I'll die in: - The Death Clock: April 2051; - Population.io: July 2059 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
- bhelkey 5y agoI am surprised they are so different. Have you compared it to an actuarial table from your country?
- endisneigh 5y agoHow do I get my data out of this with GDPR?
- closeparen 5y agoHow would they know that it's your data?
- endisneigh 5y agotheir ignorance is no excuse for escaping the law.
- closeparen 5y agoThat's ridiculous.
- endisneigh 5y agoAre you arguing a website can collect as much data as they want without respecting GDPR so long there’s no way to directly attribute the data to who provided it?
- closeparen 5y agoYes absolutely, data has to be tied to an identifiable subject to be covered by GDPR. Are you arguing a website should make data identifiable when it otherwise doesn't have to be, just to support subject access or deletion requests? That's clearly contrary to the spirit of the law.
- SjorsVG 5y agoDoes not work on Android Firefox. I have -30 years to live and the other stats are all empty: You are (nothing)% etc.
- hans1729 5y agoNeeds some error-handling in populating their template strings: > Did you know that you share a birthday with about people around the world and that approximately people were born in the same hour?
- moltke 5y agoMeh, it only does global population which isn't meaningful. Most of the world has much lower rent because there isn't a constant flow of immigrants competing for a small number of very expensive, carefully zoned single family houses who's prices are propped up with cheap credit.
- merpnderp 5y agoThe site was broken for me, likely because of blockers. So they didn’t give me results but I didn’t give them real data. Fair trade.
- toothpicked 5y agoI tried to use it twice and the second time, the app ignored my input and used the same as my first input.
- yboris 5y agoA more-important metric is "How Rich Am I?" - which will blow your mind. The world income distribution is exceptionally unequal and this chart will make it very clear (plus a call to action). https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i https://howrichami.givingwhatwecan.org/how-rich-am-i