Every question
500 real-world numbers, each with its source and the year it refers to. today’s five
World
Population, geography and planet-scale numbers.
- How long is the Great Wall of China, in miles?
- How many airports are there in the world?
- How many babies are born worldwide each day?
- How many bicycles are there in the world?
- How many cars are there in the world?
- How many cattle are there in the world?
- How many cigarettes are smoked worldwide each year?
- How many countries are members of the United Nations?
- How many islands does Indonesia have?
- How many languages are spoken in the world today?
- How many magnitude 5 or greater earthquakes happen each year?
- How many scheduled official languages does India have?
- How many passengers do airlines carry worldwide each year?
- How many people die in road accidents worldwide each year?
- How many people have reached the summit of Mount Everest?
- How many people have ever lived on Earth?
- How many people worldwide have no access to electricity?
- How many people live in Africa?
- How many people live in Brazil?
- How many people live in China?
- How many people live in India?
- How many people live in Japan?
- How many people live in Mexico?
- How many people live in Nigeria?
- How many people live in Spain?
- How many people live in the European Union?
- How many people live on Earth?
- How many people smoke worldwide?
- How many people speak English worldwide?
- How many species of fish are there?
- How many international tourists visit France each year?
- How many trees are there on Earth?
- How many volcanoes erupt each year?
- How many tons of coffee are produced worldwide each year?
- How much does the world spend on the military each year?
- How many tons of food are wasted worldwide each year?
- How many tons of gold have ever been mined?
- How many tons of plastic are produced worldwide each year?
- What percentage of the world’s population lives in cities?
USA
Numbers that define life in the United States.
- How many babies are born in the United States each year?
- How many bridges are there in the United States?
- How many motor vehicles are registered in the United States?
- How many civilian employees does the U.S. federal government have?
- How many farms are there in the United States?
- How many civilian-owned firearms are there in the United States?
- How many McDonald’s locations are there in the United States?
- How many miles does the average American drive per year?
- How many passengers does the TSA screen on an average day?
- How many people are incarcerated in the United States?
- How many people live in the United States?
- How many recreation visits do U.S. national parks get each year?
- How many sworn police officers are there in the United States?
- How many public schools are there in the United States?
- How many tornadoes hit the United States in an average year?
- How many pounds of trash does the average American throw away each day?
- What is the median household income in the United States?
- What percentage of American adults have a bachelor’s degree or higher?
Money
Prices, salaries, spending and the cost of everything.
- How many euro banknotes are in circulation?
- How much credit card debt do Americans owe in total?
- How much did the U.S. federal government spend in a year?
- How much does the average American spend on lottery tickets per year?
- How much does the average European household spend on holidays per year?
- How much does the average Spanish household spend on Christmas?
- How much does the average gamer spend on games per year?
- How much does a day in a Spanish public hospital cost the health system?
- How much does a seat on a suborbital space flight cost?
- What is the average price per square metre of housing in Spain?
- How much does a cup of coffee cost in a Madrid café?
- How much does a 30-second Super Bowl ad cost?
- How much does the average Spanish household spend on food per month?
- What is the average yearly tuition at a private U.S. university?
- How much does a year of infant daycare cost in the United States?
- How much does a year of public university cost in Spain?
- How much does it cost to host the Summer Olympics?
- How much does it cost to raise a child to age 17 in the U.S.?
- How much does Netflix spend on content each year?
- How much does the average U.S. household spend on food per year?
- How much does the average American wedding cost?
- How much does the average wedding cost in Spain?
- How much does the EU spend on farm subsidies each year?
- How much does the U.S. spend on healthcare per person each year?
- How much does a kilowatt-hour of household electricity cost in the EU?
- How many bitcoins are created in each block reward?
- How much does a Champions League final ticket cost at face value?
- How much did the most expensive car ever sold go for?
- How large is Spain’s economy each year?
- How large is the U.S. national debt?
- How large is the world economy each year?
- How much does Spain’s El Gordo lottery pay out in total?
- How much cash does the average European carry?
- How much is spent on advertising worldwide each year?
- How much U.S. paper currency is in circulation?
- How much did the most expensive painting ever sold go for?
- What is the average monthly U.S. Social Security retirement benefit?
- What is the average price of a new car in the United States?
- What is the average annual salary in Spain?
- What is the U.S. federal minimum wage per hour?
- What is the median price of a single-family home in California?
- What is Spain’s monthly minimum wage?
Cities
How big, how dense, how expensive.
- How many metres above sea level is La Paz, Bolivia?
- How many kilometres long is the world’s largest metro network?
- How many bicycles are there in Amsterdam?
- How many bridges does Venice have?
- How many buildings are there in New York City?
- How many kilometres of canals does Amsterdam have?
- How many metro stations does Madrid have?
- How many people cross Shibuya Crossing each day?
- How many people live per square kilometre in Manila?
- How many people live in the city of Barcelona?
- How many people live in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area?
- How many people live in the Cairo metropolitan area?
- How many people live in the Lagos metropolitan area?
- How many people live in London?
- How many people live in the city of Los Angeles?
- How many people live in the city of Madrid?
- How many people live in New York City?
- How many people live in the New York metropolitan area?
- How many people live in the city of Paris?
- How many people live in the Mexico City metropolitan area?
- How many people live in the Tokyo metropolitan area?
- How many people live in Vatican City?
- How many people live in the world’s largest urban area?
- How many people live in Tokyo prefecture?
- How many journeys are made on the London Underground each day?
- How many people use Tokyo’s rail network each day?
- How many people visit Times Square each year?
- How many tourists visit Venice each year?
- How many restaurants are there in New York City?
- How many skyscrapers does Hong Kong have?
- How many street lights does Madrid have?
- How many subway stations does New York City have?
- How many tourists visit Barcelona each year?
- How many traffic lights does London have?
- How many yellow taxi medallions exist in New York City?
- How much does a 30-day unlimited MetroCard cost in New York?
- How many taxis are there in Tokyo?
- How tall is the Burj Khalifa, in feet?
- How tall is the Empire State Building, including its antenna, in feet?
- How many metres tall is the second tallest building in the world?
- What is the average asking rent for a one-bedroom in Manhattan?
Technology
Devices, chips, bandwidth and the machines around us.
- What is the median U.S. fixed broadband download speed, in Mbps?
- How many petaflops does the fastest supercomputer run at?
- How many charge cycles does a smartphone battery last?
- How many minutes does a fast charger take to charge an EV to 80%?
- How many active Android devices are there worldwide?
- How many active satellites are orbiting Earth?
- How many vehicles did Tesla deliver in a year?
- How many devices are connected to the internet?
- How many electric cars are sold worldwide each year?
- How many emails does the average office worker receive per day?
- How many hours does a modern laptop battery last?
- How many iPhones has Apple sold in total?
- How many words per minute does an average person type?
- How many lines of code does Google’s codebase have?
- How many lines of code are in the Linux kernel?
- How many messages are sent on WhatsApp each day?
- How many miles of undersea internet cable are there?
- How many nanometres is the most advanced chip manufacturing process?
- How many parameters does GPT-3 have?
- How many credentials are exposed in data breaches each year?
- How many people use WhatsApp?
- How many people work at Apple?
- How many people work at Google’s parent company Alphabet?
- How many photos are taken worldwide each year?
- How many photos and videos are posted to Instagram each day?
- How many Starlink satellites are in orbit?
- How many smartphones are sold worldwide each year?
- How many smartphones are in use worldwide?
- How many times a day does the average person check their phone?
- How many transactions does Visa process each day?
- How many transistors are in an Apple M4 chip?
- How many charging cables does the average household own?
- How many edits are made to Wikipedia each day?
- How many exabytes of data are created worldwide each day?
- How much did the first commercial mobile phone cost?
- How much does a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch cost?
- How much does it cost to train a frontier AI model?
- How much electricity do data centers use worldwide each year, in terawatt-hours?
- How much electricity does Bitcoin use each year, in terawatt-hours?
- How many times more powerful is a modern phone than the Apollo 11 computer?
- How many megabytes did the first commercial hard drive hold?
Gaming
Sales, players and records from video games.
- What is the Rubik’s Cube world record, in seconds?
- How many minutes is the Super Mario Bros speedrun world record?
- How many hours does an average Elden Ring playthrough take?
- How many hours does it take to complete a Pokémon game’s Pokédex?
- How many hours does it take to fully complete The Witcher 3?
- How many hours did the longest recorded Monopoly game last?
- How many achievements exist across all Steam games?
- How many Pac-Man arcade machines were sold?
- How many blocks wide is a Minecraft world?
- How many buttons does a PlayStation 5 controller have?
- How many different Magic: The Gathering cards exist?
- How many chess games are played online each day?
- How many people are on Steam at the same time at peak?
- How many copies has the FIFA / EA Sports FC series sold?
- How many copies has Grand Theft Auto V sold?
- How many copies has GTA: San Andreas sold?
- How many copies has Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold?
- How many copies has Minecraft sold?
- How many copies has Red Dead Redemption 2 sold?
- How many copies has Tetris sold across all versions?
- How many copies has Wii Sports sold?
- How many daily active users does Roblox have?
- How many people watch esports worldwide?
- How many games are available on Steam?
- How many games are released on Steam each year?
- How many hours a week does the average gamer play?
- How many hours does it take to fully complete the longest RPG?
- How many Lego bricks have been made?
- How many lines of code are in a modern AAA video game?
- How many possible chess games are there?
- How many Nintendo Switch consoles have been sold?
- How many people played Wordle at its peak?
- How much is the global board game market worth each year?
- How many people play Candy Crush each month?
- How many people play League of Legends each month?
- How many people play mobile games worldwide?
- How many people play video games worldwide?
- How many people played Among Us at its peak month?
- How many hours of gaming content are watched on YouTube each year?
- How many people watch Twitch at the same time on average?
- How many people attended the Travis Scott concert inside Fortnite?
- How many concurrent viewers did the 2024 League of Legends World final peak at?
- How many people work at Nintendo?
- How many pieces are in the largest Lego set ever released?
- How many players are in a standard Fortnite battle royale match?
- How many PlayStation 2 consoles were sold?
- How many different Pokémon species are there?
- How many Pokémon video games have been sold?
- How many possible combinations does a Rubik’s Cube have?
- How many registered accounts does Fortnite have?
- How much did Cyberpunk 2077 cost to develop and market?
- How much did Microsoft pay for Activision Blizzard?
- How much did the most expensive virtual item ever sold go for?
- How much did the largest esports prize pool pay out?
- How much revenue does the video game industry make each year?
Food
Calories, consumption and what America eats.
- How many seconds does McDonald’s aim to take per drive-through order?
- How many bananas are eaten worldwide each year?
- How many Big Macs are sold in the United States each year?
- How many calories are in a McDonald’s Big Mac?
- How many calories are in a 12 oz can of Coca-Cola?
- How many calories are in a plain butter croissant?
- How many calories are in a standard glass of red wine?
- How many calories are in a Krispy Kreme Original Glazed doughnut?
- How many calories are in 100 grams of jamón ibérico?
- How many calories are in a venti Starbucks Caramel Frappuccino?
- How many calories does the average person eat per day worldwide?
- How many chicken wings do Americans eat on Super Bowl Sunday?
- How many cups of coffee are drunk worldwide each day?
- How many cups of coffee do Americans drink each day?
- How many cups of tea are drunk worldwide each day?
- How many cups of tea are drunk in the UK each day?
- How many eggs are produced worldwide each year?
- How many eggs does the average American eat per year?
- How many tons of grapes are eaten in Spain on New Year’s Eve?
- How many litres of beer are drunk at Oktoberfest?
- How many litres of water does an adult need per day from all sources?
- How many McDonald’s restaurants are there worldwide?
- How many Michelin-starred restaurants are there in the world?
- How many people eat rice as a daily staple?
- How many pizzas are eaten in Italy each year?
- How many pizzas are sold in the United States each day?
- How many pounds of cheese does the average American eat per year?
- How many bars and restaurants are there in Spain?
- How many kilograms of spices does India export each year?
- How many Starbucks locations are there worldwide?
- How many varieties of cheese are there in France?
- How many pounds of beef does the average American eat per year?
- How many tons of chocolate does the world eat each year?
- How much is the global food delivery market worth each year?
- How much does saffron cost per kilogram?
- How many gallons of milk does the average American drink per year?
- How many tons of olive oil does Spain produce each year?
- How many pounds of added sugar does the average American eat per year?
- How many litres of water does it take to produce one hamburger?
Sports
Records, salaries, attendance and speed.
- What is the capacity of Camp Nou?
- How many kilometres does a footballer run in a match?
- What is the top speed of a Formula 1 car, in miles per hour?
- What was Usain Bolt’s top speed, in miles per hour?
- How fast does a professional forehand travel, in miles per hour?
- How fast is the fastest Formula 1 pit stop, in seconds?
- How fast was the fastest recorded tennis serve, in miles per hour?
- How much does a regulation football weigh, in grams?
- How heavy is the men’s Olympic shot put, in pounds?
- What is the men’s high jump world record, in feet?
- How many minutes can the best free divers hold their breath?
- How long is a marathon, in kilometres?
- How many minutes does an average professional tennis match last?
- How many Ballon d’Or awards has Lionel Messi won?
- How many calories does a Tour de France rider burn on a mountain stage?
- How many European Cup / Champions League titles has Real Madrid won?
- How many countries competed in the Paris 2024 Olympics?
- How many career goals has Cristiano Ronaldo scored?
- How many hot dogs is the Nathan’s contest record for 10 minutes?
- How many kilometres long is the Tour de France?
- How many Olympic medals has Spain won in total?
- How many minutes is the ball actually in play during an NFL broadcast?
- How many Olympic medals did Michael Phelps win?
- What is the average attendance at a La Liga match?
- How many people attended Super Bowl LVIII in person?
- How many people play basketball worldwide?
- How many people play padel in Spain?
- How many people play soccer worldwide?
- How many people finish a marathon worldwide each year?
- How many people outside the U.S. watch the Super Bowl?
- How many people watched the 2022 World Cup final?
- How many people watched the 2022 World Cup in total?
- How many people watched the 2024 Super Bowl on television?
- How many registered footballers are there worldwide?
- What is the men’s 100 metres world record, in seconds?
- How many stitches are there on a baseball?
- How many tennis balls are used at Wimbledon each year?
- How many times has Brazil won the World Cup?
- How much does the Premier League earn from TV rights each year?
- How much did PSG pay for Neymar?
- How tall was the tallest NBA player ever, in feet?
- What is the average NBA player salary per season?
- What is the average NFL player salary per season?
- What is the men’s marathon world record, in minutes?
- What is the most points scored by one player in an NBA game?
Science
Space, biology, physics and very large or very small things.
- How many metres deep can a sperm whale dive?
- How deep is the Mariana Trench, in feet?
- How far away is the Moon, in miles?
- How many light years away is the nearest star to the Sun?
- How far away is the Sun, in miles?
- How fast does light travel, in kilometres per second?
- How fast does the Earth orbit the Sun, in miles per hour?
- How hot is a lightning bolt, in degrees Celsius?
- How hot is the surface of the Sun, in degrees Fahrenheit?
- How many kilometres of blood vessels are in a human body?
- How many days can a cockroach survive without its head?
- How many years does an elephant live in the wild?
- How many months does it take to fly to Mars?
- How many seconds does sunlight take to reach Earth?
- How many feet of DNA are packed into a single human cell?
- How many ants are there on Earth?
- How many atoms are in a single grain of sand?
- How many bacteria live on a typical smartphone screen?
- How many bacteria live in the human body?
- How many species of birds are there?
- How many bones are there in an adult human body?
- How many breaths does a person take per day?
- How many cells are in the human body?
- How many elements are in the periodic table?
- How many galaxies are in the observable universe?
- How many hearts does an octopus have?
- How many lightning strikes hit the Earth each day?
- How many litres of blood does the heart pump per day?
- How many neurons are in the human brain?
- How many people have walked on the Moon?
- How many exoplanets have been confirmed?
- How many species have been formally described by science?
- How many stars are in the Milky Way?
- How many taste buds does a human have?
- How many times per second does a hummingbird beat its wings?
- How many times does the average human heart beat in a lifetime?
- How many tons does a blue whale weigh?
- How many tons does an average cumulus cloud weigh?
- What percentage of the world’s oxygen does the Amazon produce?
- How many tons does the International Space Station weigh?
- What percentage of the ocean floor has been mapped in detail?
- How many years old is the Earth?
- How many years old is the universe?
History
Numbers from the past that still surprise.
- How many years has the Sagrada Família been under construction?
- How many days did Magellan’s expedition take to circle the globe?
- How many years did the Hundred Years’ War actually last?
- How many days did the Berlin Airlift last?
- How many minutes did the shortest war in history last?
- How many copies of the Gutenberg Bible were printed?
- How many countries have disappeared since 1900?
- How many immigrants were processed through Ellis Island?
- How many languages have gone extinct in the last century?
- How many people attended the 1969 Woodstock festival?
- How many workers died building the Panama Canal?
- How many people died in the 1918 flu pandemic?
- How many people died in the Black Death?
- How many people died in World War II?
- How many Europeans emigrated to the Americas between 1820 and 1930?
- How many popes have there been?
- How many people lived in the city of Rome at its peak?
- How many people lived in the Roman Empire at its peak?
- How many people lived in the world in 1900?
- How many people watched the Moon landing live?
- How many people visit the Eiffel Tower each year?
- How many athletes competed in the first modern Olympics?
- How many people were aboard the Titanic?
- How many people worked on the Manhattan Project?
- How many crew sailed with Columbus in 1492?
- How many ships were in the Spanish Armada of 1588?
- How many stone blocks are in the Great Pyramid of Giza?
- How many Terracotta Warriors are there?
- How many people visit the Prado Museum each year?
- How many wives did Henry VIII have?
- How many years did it take to build the Taj Mahal?
- How many years did the Berlin Wall stand?
- How many years did the Thirty Years’ War last?
- How many years did the Western Roman Empire last?
- How many years did Muslim rule last in the Iberian Peninsula?
- How much did the United States pay Russia for Alaska?
- How many years old are the Pyramids of Giza?
- How many years old is the city of Rome?
- How many years old is the oldest known cave painting?
- How many years old is the oldest known writing?
- How many years old is the oldest continuously operating university?
- How many metres tall is the Eiffel Tower?
- How tall was the tallest man ever recorded, in feet?
Internet
Users, uploads, searches and the scale of the web.
- After how many seconds do most people abandon a web page?
- How many seconds does the average website visit last?
- How many apps are in the Apple App Store?
- How many videos are uploaded to TikTok each day?
- How many domain names are registered worldwide?
- How many emails are sent worldwide each day?
- What percentage of all email is spam?
- How many articles does English Wikipedia have?
- How many fake accounts does Facebook remove each quarter?
- How many Google searches happen every second?
- How many hours a day does the average internet user spend online?
- How many hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute?
- How many languages does Google Translate support?
- How many monthly active users does Instagram have?
- How many monthly active users does TikTok have?
- How many online stores are there worldwide?
- How many packages does Amazon deliver each day?
- How many passwords does the average internet user have?
- How many minutes of video calls happen on Zoom each day?
- How many people shop online worldwide?
- What percentage of internet users have an ad blocker?
- How many people use ChatGPT each week?
- How many people use social media worldwide?
- How many people use the internet?
- What percentage of European employees work from home at least sometimes?
- How many podcasts exist?
- How many posts are published on X (formerly Twitter) each day?
- How many searches does Google handle each day?
- How many paid subscribers does Netflix have?
- How many websites are hacked each day?
- How many websites exist on the internet?
- How many hours of YouTube are watched each day?
- What percentage of the web is indexed by search engines?
- How many minutes a day does the average person spend on social media?
- What percentage of internet traffic comes from bots rather than humans?
Movies & TV
Box office, budgets, audiences and screen time.
- How many years did it take to make the first Toy Story?
- How many minutes long is the extended edition of The Return of the King?
- How many actors have played the lead role in Doctor Who?
- How many episodes of The Simpsons have been made?
- How many extras appeared in the funeral scene of Gandhi?
- How many feature films are released worldwide each year?
- How many films has Nicolas Cage appeared in?
- How many frames per second does a standard cinema film run at?
- How many hours of TV does the average person watch per day worldwide?
- How many hours was Squid Game watched in its first 28 days?
- How many official James Bond films are there?
- How many countries is Netflix available in?
- How many films are there in the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
- How many minutes does the shark appear on screen in Jaws?
- What is the most Academy Awards a single film has won?
- How many cinema tickets are sold in Spain each year?
- How many people watched the Paris 2024 Olympics opening ceremony?
- How many people watched the Game of Thrones finale in the U.S.?
- How many YouTube subscribers does MrBeast have?
- How many takes did the baseball bat scene in The Shining need?
- How many Oscars has Spain won for Best International Feature?
- How many visual effects shots are in a modern blockbuster?
- How much has Avatar (2009) made at the worldwide box office?
- How much did Netflix pay for one more year of Friends?
- How much did Avengers: Endgame cost to make?
- How much did the original 1977 Star Wars cost to make?
- How much did one episode of The Rings of Power cost?
- How much has Titanic made at the worldwide box office?
- How many people watch the Eurovision Song Contest final?
Music
Streams, sales, tours and the numbers behind the hits.
- How many weeks did the longest-charting song spend on the Billboard Hot 100?
- How many minutes long is Bohemian Rhapsody?
- How loud is a rock concert, in decibels?
- How many copies does an album need to sell for a gold record in the US?
- How many records have The Beatles sold worldwide?
- How many copies has Michael Jackson’s Thriller sold?
- How many followers does the most-followed person on Instagram have?
- How many Grammy Awards has Beyoncé won?
- How many hours of music does the average person listen to per week?
- How many musicians are in a full symphony orchestra?
- How many keys does a standard piano have?
- How many monthly active users does Spotify have?
- How many semitones are there in an octave?
- How many US number one singles did The Beatles have?
- How many people attended the biggest free concert ever?
- How many people attend music festivals in Spain each year?
- How many songs does the average Spotify user listen to in a year?
- How many people in Spain watch the Eurovision final?
- How many songs are available on Spotify?
- How many songs did The Beatles officially release?
- How many strings does a standard grand piano have?
- How many times has Despacito been streamed on Spotify?
- How many times has Spain won the Eurovision Song Contest?
- How many YouTube views does Baby Shark Dance have?
- How many vinyl records are sold worldwide each year?
- How much did Bruce Springsteen sell his music catalogue for?
- How much did Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour gross?
- How much did the most expensive guitar ever sold go for?
- How many streams does an artist need on Spotify to earn one dollar?
- How many Spotify streams does the most-streamed song of all time have?