Each dot is a share of this year's births. Press Be born to be drawn among them, then live a year at a time on your country's real odds.
Real people. Real data. A thousand different lives.UN WPP 2024 · WHO GHO · WORLD BANK WDI
The birth lottery
Drawing your birthplace...
Certificate of birth
Form B-01
Country
Year
Sex
SOURCES: UN World Population Prospects 2024 · WHO GHO · World Bank WDI · UNESCO UIS
Living year by year
A different life, a realer world.
AgeEventΔ Stats
Space age up · ←→↓ or swipe to choose · A auto-live
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Your life's record
A life complete
Death record
Form D-01
Age at death
Country life expectancy
Cause
Obituary
Your stats over time
Fig. 1
SOURCES: UN WPP 2024 · WHO GHO · WORLD BANK WDI
How to play
Be born. Your country is drawn at random, weighted by real births, so India, China and Nigeria come up far more than Iceland.
Age +1 year with the stamp or Space. Things happen to you, shaped by your country's real numbers.
Choose when a slip asks: tick a box, swipe the slip left or right, or press ←→ (↓ for a third box). Every choice moves your Health, Joy, Mind, Bonds or Money, from the first years on.
Auto-live (A) lives the years for you and ticks choices itself. Switch it off to take back control.
Watch Health, Joy, Mind, Bonds and Money. Health changes your odds of seeing another birthday.