Honest projection · estimated
Deaths Today (est.)
An honest projection of deaths worldwide since midnight UTC, ticking at the UN’s global average rate. It is the companion to the births counter above — and the two together are exactly what the world-population clock nets out (births minus deaths). Real deaths do not arrive evenly; this is the average made visible, never a live feed.
About this number
This is an honest projection, not a census. It is computed by carrying a published figure forward at a known rate over real elapsed time — ≈ 1.9 deaths/sec, from UN World Population Prospects 2024 — global crude death rate (births 4.3/sec minus net growth 2.3/sec). The source is UN World Population Prospects 2024. The true value is known only to within a margin; this is the running estimate, and we label it as one.