7 Billion People Are Awake Right Now
At the moment (as I write), 6.962 billion people are awake, while another 2.1 billion are fast asleep. Awake Globe visualizes this constantly shifting global rhythm of sleep and wakefulness, revealing where people around the world are currently awake, asleep, or somewhere in between. The map presents the Earth as a glowing, rotating globe. Daylight sweeps across its surface at around 1,000 miles per hour (at the equator), while millions of tiny coloured points show where people are currently awake or asleep. Blue represents people who are tucked up in bed, while green indicates those who are awake, with a spectrum of colours in between showing the gradual transition from sleep to wakefulness. The actual sleeping and wide-awake populations shown on the map have been derived from a number of different sources using a modelled sleep window. Population data comes from GeoNames, covering 135,233 settlements and around 3.13 billion people. The remaining 4.97 billion people are estimat...
