"Earth's of all humanity disrupting the ecological the planet."

The Buckminste Fuller Challenge -

Territory size shows the proportion of all cars in the world that are
found there. In 2002 there were 590 million cars in the world. That
is one for every ten people. There are 140 million cars in the United States
and 55 million in Japan. This contrasts with just nine million cars in China
and 6 million in India. Western European territories dominate the top ten list
of the most cars per person. New Zealand, however, is at the top of this list,
with 61 cars per hundred people. As 23% of the population of New Zealand are
under 14 years old, that is almost a car per person for everyone old enough
to drive. In contrast, in the Central African Republic, Bangladesh and Tajikistan
there is one car for every 2000+ people.

"... the car still defines a lifestyle. Americans still buy cars by the millions,
whether they are in gridlocked LA or in the middle of Kansas miles from the
nearest town." Paul Harris, 2006

Sources are carefully selected to include only data published by the most prestigious institutions in the world, such as the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, its data branch FAOstat, the OECD and others (click here for a list of sources). We are currently working on dedicated pages where you can learn more and find sources for each topic. List of sources and methods currently online:

• world population


• global military spending


• global education spending


• countries in the U.N.


• cars produced in the world


• bicycles produced in the world


• toxic chemical releases by industries worldwide

In the United States, throughout all 24 hours of every day of the year -- year after year -- we have an average of 2,000,000 automobiles standing in front of red stoplights with their engines going, the energy for which amounts to that generated by the full efforts of 200 million horses being completely wasted as they jump up and down going nowhere."

Fuller and oil geologist Francois de Chandenèdes, calculated the amounts of heat and pressure nature uses to convert Sun into life and, over time, into fossil fuels. At current kilowatt/hour electric rates, it costs nature a million dollars a gallon to make petroleum. In this very real "cosmic accounting system" people are burning several million dollars worth every week going to work. "It doesn't take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home," says you-know-who.

After World War II, the G.I. Bill offered returning vets an all-expense-paid trip to college. Many took it. And those educated minds made the United States the most prosperous nation this world had ever known. What if humanity no longer needs the few watts of muscle-power an individual can generate? What if we no longer need people to work at jobs they consider meaningless? What if we put the whole world on the G.I. Bill and make educational tools available in every home (via VCR, Internet, etc.).

Sure, some will go fishing. But others ``will start thinking `What was it I was thinking about when they told me I had to "earn my living" -- doing what someone else had decided needed to be done? What do I see that needs to be done that nobody else is attending to?' One person with a better rice strain or improved transistor can pay for the life-support of the next 1000, or even 100,000 people. (And what's wrong with fishing, says Fuller, it clears the mind. ``And that's what we need: people to think clearly.)

International Programs Center, U.S. Census Bureau, the total population of the World, projected to 06/27/08 at 17:49 GMT (EST+5) is 6,706,285,906

Year World population figures:

World Population Information

Compare with:World POPClock from US Bureau of the Census

National POPClock from US Bureau of the Census
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