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A share of the world

Each total divided by the same mid-2026 world population — 8.30 billion people. Curated snapshots, not a live feed.

Share-of-the-world figures for 8.30 billion people, including 4.4 acres and $17,496 per person, plus water, food, carbon, materials, energy, networks, metals, fleets, languages, species, care, and time. $145.23 trillion broad money.

01/Land

4.4

acres / person

02/Money

$17,496

USD / person

03/Freshwater

5,180

m³ / person / year

04/Cropland

0.47

cropland acres / person

05/Forest

1.20

forest acres / person

06/Calories

3,000

kcal available / person / day

07/Cereals

377

kg grain / person / year

08/Fish

22.8

kg fish / person / year

09/Coffee

1.29

kg coffee / person / year

10/Carbon

5.1

t CO₂ / person / year

11/Budget

20

t 1.5 °C budget left / person

12/Concrete

3.6

t concrete / person / year

13/Steel

227

kg steel / person / year

14/Plastic

48

kg plastic / person / year

15/Fertilizer

22

kg nutrients / person / year

16/Electricity

3,714

kWh / person / year

17/Solar

265

W solar PV installed / person

18/Internet

6.3

billion people online

19/Vehicles

5.7

people / motor vehicle

20/Phones

0.15

smartphones shipped / person / year

21/Gold

26.6

g above-ground gold / person

22/Oil

189

bbl reserves / person

23/Gas

22,649

m³ gas reserves / person

24/Copper

120

kg copper reserves / person

25/Ships

73,784

people / merchant ship

26/Satellites

830,068

people / operational satellite

27/Airports

198,486

people / airport

28/Languages

1,159,475

people / living language

29/Species

3,737

people / described species

30/Care

160

people / core health worker

31/Awake

132.8

billion waking hours today

32/History

2,914

× hours of recorded history

People: ~8,300,678,395. UN WPP mid-2026 / Worldometer. Same denominator unless a source uses its own headcount.

Land: 148,940,000 km² excl. oceans. 1 km² = 247.105 acres.

Money: $145.23T broad money, 159 economies. M2 Index mixed-date snapshot. m2index.com

Freshwater: ~43,000 km³ renewable annual flow. FAO AQUASTAT.

Cropland: 1,571 million ha, 2023. Forest: 4,044 million ha, 2023. FAOSTAT. 1 ha = 2.47105 acres.

Calories: DES 3,000 kcal/person/day, 2023 (FAO FBS) vs ~1,800 kcal MDER. Availability, not access.

Cereals: 3.13 billion tonnes dry grain, 2024. FAOSTAT.

Fish: 189 million tonnes capture + aquaculture, excl. algae, 2023. FAO Yearbook 2025.

Coffee: ~10.68 million tonnes, 2023/24 (~178 million 60 kg bags). ICO.

Carbon: 42.4 GtCO₂ in 2024; 170 GtCO₂ remaining 1.5 °C budget from 2026 (50%). Global Carbon Budget 2025.

Steel: 1,882.6 Mt crude steel, 2024. worldsteel. Concrete: ~30 Gt/year (Nature / CSI-style estimate).

Plastic: 400.3 Mt world production, 2022. Plastics Europe Fast Facts 2023.

Fertilizer: ~185 Mt inorganic nutrients used in agriculture, ~2022. FAOSTAT.

Electricity: ~30,829 TWh, 2024. Ember. Solar PV stock ~2.2 TW, end-2024. IEA.

Internet: 6.3B online, 2.0B offline, 2026. ITU Facts and Figures 2026.

Vehicles: ~1.45 billion motor vehicles in use. OICA / ACEA.

Smartphones: 1.24 billion units shipped, 2024. IDC.

Gold: 220,700 t above ground, end-2025. World Gold Council / Metals Focus.

Oil: 1,567 billion barrels proved, end-2024. OPEC ASB 2025.

Gas: ~188 trillion m³ proved. Energy Institute Statistical Review.

Copper: ~1,000 million tonnes reserves. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries.

Ships: ~112,500 merchant vessels ≥100 GT, start of 2025. UNCTAD.

Satellites: ~10,000 operational. Union of Concerned Scientists.

Airports: 41,820. CIA World Factbook.

Languages: 7,159 living. Ethnologue 28th ed., 2025.

Species: 2,221,237 in the 2025 annual checklist (includes extinct). Catalogue of Life.

Health workers: 52 million dentists, doctors, midwives, nurses and pharmacists, 2023. WHO World Health Statistics 2025.

Time: 16 waking hours/person/day × mid-2026 population vs ~5,200 years from earliest writing (~3200 BCE). Labeled estimate.