ONE PIXEL LESS / REFERENCE
World population and the artwork
The artwork uses a population estimate as its denominator. It is a reference for the scale of the picture, not a live estimate of people currently on Earth.
An annual reference, not a live counter
The application fetches the latest available World Bank observation for World / SP.POP.TOTL. The observation is annual, is cached for operational stability, and is labeled with its year in the interface.
WORLD BANK INDICATOR
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