About 2 people die every second somewhere in the world
About 172,800 people die worldwide each day, which is 2 every second. That is based on 63.1 million deaths a year in UN estimates. About 2.1 babies are born for every person who dies. In the US, 3,090,964 people died in 2023, about 8,470 a day.
People who have died today
and counting, about 2.0 per second. Resets at midnight local time.
Heart disease causes more deaths than any other condition. These are WHO estimates for 2023, listed from most to fewest deaths among the causes shown.
| Cause | Deaths, 2023 |
|---|---|
| Ischaemic heart disease | 9.5 million |
| Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease | 3.6 million |
| Lower respiratory infections | 2.7 million |
| Alzheimer disease and other dementias | 2.1 million |
| Diabetes | 2.0 million |
| Trachea, bronchus and lung cancers | 1.8 million |
Source: World Health Organization, global health estimates 2023. Stroke is also a leading cause but is not listed because Dayblip could not confirm its 2023 figure.
3,090,964 people died in the US in 2023. Heart disease and cancer together caused 42% of them.
| Rank | Cause | Deaths, 2023 | Share of US deaths |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Diseases of the heart | 680,981 | 22.0% |
| 2 | Cancer | 613,352 | 19.8% |
| 3 | Accidents (unintentional injuries) | 222,698 | 7.2% |
| 4 | Stroke | 162,639 | 5.3% |
| 5 | Chronic lower respiratory diseases | 145,357 | 4.7% |
| 6 | Alzheimer disease | 114,034 | 3.7% |
| 7 | Diabetes | 95,190 | 3.1% |
| 8 | Kidney disease | 55,253 | 1.8% |
| 9 | Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis | 52,222 | 1.7% |
| 10 | COVID-19 | 49,932 | 1.6% |
Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Mortality in the United States, 2023 (Data Brief No. 521). The Census Bureau population clock uses a projected rate for the current year, so it differs from this final count.
About 172,800 people die each day worldwide, based on 63.1 million deaths a year in UN estimates. That is about 7,200 an hour and 2 every second.
About 2. The UN estimate of 63.1 million deaths a year works out to 2.00 deaths per second, or 120 per minute.
About 2.1. The UN estimates 132.4 million births and 63.1 million deaths a year, so the world population grows by about 69.3 million people a year.
Ischaemic heart disease. WHO estimates it caused about 9.5 million deaths in 2023, around 16% of all deaths.
It shows an average, not a live registry. No agency counts deaths worldwide in real time, so the counter multiplies a yearly UN estimate by the seconds elapsed since local midnight.
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Methodology: The counter multiplies 63.1 million yearly deaths (UN World Population Prospects 2024, 2025 estimates) by the seconds since local midnight, using a 365.25-day year. It shows an average rate, not a registry count. Cause-of-death tables use WHO 2023 estimates and final CDC 2023 US data.
Last updated: November 2026