live estimate
people walking right now
171,154,685people
2.083% of humanity
modelled estimate · updated every second · nothing here is actually being counted
walking since you opened this page
0
walks taken every day
8,215,424,893
walks starting every second
95,086
by the numbers
steps taken
285,257,809
steps per second
distance walked
237,715
km per second
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by country — right now
| country | local time | awake | people |
|---|---|---|---|
| India | 18:00 | 92% | 28,057,423 |
| China | 20:30 | 85% | 24,908,276 |
| United States | 08:30 | 85% | 6,052,440 |
| Indonesia | 19:30 | 90% | 5,357,273 |
| Pakistan | 17:30 | 93% | 4,944,879 |
| Nigeria | 13:30 | 96% | 4,750,556 |
| Brazil | 09:30 | 93% | 4,123,240 |
| Bangladesh | 18:30 | 92% | 3,367,332 |
| Russia | 15:30 | 95% | 2,840,368 |
| Ethiopia | 15:30 | 95% | 2,681,218 |
How this works (the honest bit).
This is our assumption rather than a measurement, and walking is the hardest activity on this network to define: crossing a room is walking, and so is a ten-mile hike. We count one purposeful walk a day, of about thirty minutes, which excludes the incidental steps of simply being on your feet. That puts roughly 170 million people mid-walk at any moment. If you would count all walking rather than deliberate walks, the true figure is far higher; if you would count only walking as transport, it is lower. We have stated ours rather than hidden it. Every figure on this page is a model built from population data, each country's local clock and the assumptions above. It is an estimate, it moves every second, and at least one of them is certainly true.