BigNumbers

The following maps and data are intended as a brief overview of the world. They are not intended to be definitive or all-inclusive but rather to provide a "BigPicture" perspective.

Each dot = 70 million people = 1% of humanity (in 2012)

MapWorld Population: 7.0 billion
   23% in China/Earth Asia
   22% in Indian Subcontinent
   13% in Africa
   10% in Europe
   9% in Southeast Asia
   8% in Latin America
   5% in North America
   5% in Russia and Commonwealth of Independent States
   3% in Middle East
   2% in Japan
Yearly increase in population: 74 million

Global Population Density. Where people live on Earth:
Globe

City lights at night time. Where people use energy:
Lights

Globe

Total languages and dialects in world: 5,800

Hydrosphere

Ocean Volume: 317,000,000 cubic miles of water (97.2% of total world water)
Total world water supply: 326,071,300 (cubic mile of water = 1,101,117,143,000
Deepest part of ocean, Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean: 35,810 ft. (6.78 miles)
Ice Caps and Glaciers: 7,000,000 cubic miles of water (90% is located on Antarctic)
Mean Depth of Ocean: 4,000 meters
Annual variation in leve of the world oceans: about 4 in.

Water content of Biosphere:

Fresh water lakes, saline lakes & inland & inland seas = 30,000 cmw*
Saline lakes & inland seas = 25,000 cmw
Rivers & streams = 3,100 cmw
Surface Water = 553,000 cmw
Atmosphere = 3,100 cmw
* cmw = cubic miles water
At any given moment, 2,200 thunderstorms occur on Earth's surface; audible to 18 miles

Lithosphere

Mean thickness of lithosphere: 4.6 kilometers (2.86 miles)
Age of most ancient terrestrial rocks: 4 billion years (South Africa, Greenland)
Mass of Earth: 6.575 X 10*21 tons
Density: 3.6 ounce per square inch
Volume: 121,251,907,673 cubic miles (121.25 billion cubic miles)
Active volcanoes in world: 850
Common elements in Earth:
Iron: 35% of Earth
Oxygen 30%
Silicon: 15%
Magnesium: 13%
Nickel: 2.4%
Sulfur: 1.9%
Calcium: 1.1%
Aluminum: 1.1%
Sodium: 0.57%
Chromium: 0.26%
Manganese: 0.22%
Cobalt: 0.13%
Phosphorus: 0.10
Potassium: 0.08%
Titanium: 0.05%

Atmosphere

Atmosphere height from sea level: 18,000 miles; 99% compressed in lowest 50 miles; weather limited to bottom 5 to 10 miles
Atmosphere weight: 5,000 trillion metric tons
Weight/force on human being at sea level: 15 pounds per square inch

Composition of dry air at sea level:

Nitrogen: 78.08 % by volume
Oxygen: 20.95%
Argon: 0.93%
Carbon decade: 0.031
Neon: 0.001 8%
Helium: 0.000 52
Krypton: 0.000 11
Xenon: 0.000 008 7
Hydrogen: 0.000 05
Ammonia: 0.000 2
Nitrous Oxide: 0.000 05
Ozone: 0.000 ooh (summer); 0.000.002 (winter)
Lightening hits Earth about 100 times per second; 3.15 billion times per year

Flora and Fauna: World population of creatures & plants—in billions

Humans, 7.0
Food & work animals, 4.4
Water animal life, 580,000
Wild animal life, 1,667,000
Worms & termites, 94,428,683,600,000,000,000
Insects, 3,416,341,600,000,000,000,000
Protozoa & algae, 70,781,761,494,767,278,000,000
Land Plants, 721,368,396,106,333,000,000,000
Bacteria, 2,165,105,198,325,000,000,000,000
Mass of biosphere: 11,480 billion tons
Mass of living matter in biosphere: 360 billion metric tons
Number of known or catalogued species: 1.7 million
Number of unknown species: 5 to 50 million

Temperature

Temperature at Earth’s core: 4000°C
Temperature at Sun’s core: 15 million°C
Average temperatures of Earth— night: 32 degrees F; day: 72 degrees F.
Lowest recorded temperature: -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica, 8-24-60
Highest recorded temperature: 136 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Azizia, Libya, 9-13-22
Temperature increases below Earth's surface: 1 degree C per 100 feet; 30 degrees per kilometer; 96 F degrees per mile

Speed

Mean rotational velocity at equator: 1,040 mph
Mean orbital velocity: 66,597 miles per hour

Distance

Distance from Earth to Moon: 238,866 miles
Distance from Earth to Sun: 92.9 million miles

Size

Sun Diameter: 864,000 miles (as wide as 109 Earths)
(Each second, the Sun turns about 700 million tons of Hydrogen into 695 million tons of Helium; matter lost
converted into energy that makes Sun shine)
Earth diameter: 7,918 miles
Earth Circumference at equator: 24,875 miles

Weight

Mass of Earth: 6.575 X 10*21 tons
Core: 1.9 X 10*21 tons
Mantle: 4.1 X 10*21 tons
Continental crust: 7.0 X 10*19
Biomass: 1.0 X 10*12
Hydrosphere: 1.4 X 10*17
Atmosphere: 5,000 trillion metric tons
Sun's mass: 2.19 X 10*27 tons (332,998 times greater than the Earth)

Age

Estimated age of Solar system: 4.5 billion years
Age of most ancient terrestrial rocks: 4 billion years (South Africa, Greenland)
Age of living systems on Earth: 3.5 billion years
Oldest living species on Earth: Bristlecone pines (some live as long as 5000 years)

Benchmarks

World’s most thundery location: Bogor, Java, Indonesia (322 thunder days per year)
Greatest rainfall over a period of 12 months: 1,042 in Cherrapunji, India
Greatest snowfall in a season: 1,122 in. (93 ft.) in Paradise Ranger Station, Washington, US
Highest waterfall: 807m Angel Falls, Churn River, Venezuela
Largest body of fresh water: Lake Superior, Great Lakes, US
Longest river in the world: 4,160 miles long: Nile
Lowest recorded temperature: -127 degrees F (-88 degrees C), Vostok, Antarctica, 8-24-60
Highest recorded temperature: 136 degrees F (58 degrees C), El Azizia, Libya, 9-13-22

The most amazing fact about the world is how many of us there are.