How are the statistics calculated?

We use published yearly or periodic stats from international bodies, research institutes, and cybersecurity reports. Those figures get converted into per-second or per-day rates and shown as live counters. Full sources and how we calculate everything are on the methodology page.

Are the numbers real or estimated?

They're estimates based on real data. We take published statistics and convert them into real-time rates to show the scale of digital activity. Each counter links to its sources so you can check the underlying data.

How often do the counters update?

The numbers tick every second in your browser. The rates behind them come from the latest research and reports we could find; we update those when new data is published.

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Screen & Scams

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Selfies taken	-	▾
Rate: 1.076 /secWorldwide. Estimated 93.0 million selfies selfies per day. Converted to selfies per second. Full statistics page Sources: Photutorial - Selfie Statistics or Create your own Snapshot ·
Streaming hours consumed	-	▾
Rate: 273.148 /secWorldwide. About 4.3 hours per day per internet user x ~5.5 billion users = 23.6 billion hours hours per day. Converted to hours per second. Full statistics page Sources: Nielsen - The Gauge and Streaming Unwrapped Reports (2021-2024) - DataReportal - Digital 2024 Global Overview Report or Create your own Snapshot · Convert: Convert MOV to MP4 → · More video converters →
People arrested for what they posted online	-	▾
Rate: 200 /dayWorldwide. UK alone: 12,000+ arrests in 2023 (~33 per day). Global estimate from UK, Belarus, Germany, China, Turkey, Russia and others = 200+ per day. Counter shows estimated arrests today. Full statistics page Sources: Freedom House - Freedom on the Net 2024 - The Times - 30 Arrests a Day for Offensive Online Messages or Create your own Snapshot ·
Cyberbullying victims	-	▾
Rate: 126 /secWorldwide. Cyberbullying Research Center 2023: 26.5% of youth affected in the past 30 days; ~1 billion youth x 26.5% / 30 days = 10.9 million victims affected per day. Converted to per second. Full statistics page Sources: Cyberbullying Research Center - Summary of Research 2004-2025 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Online scam victims	-	▾
Rate: 3 /secWorldwide. FBI IC3 2024: 859,532 US complaints; only ~10–15% of victims report. Conservative global estimate: ~100 million victims/year ÷ 31,557,600 seconds ≈ 3.2 victims/sec. Note: GASA/Feedzai report ~50% of consumers encounter scam attempts weekly – a far broader measure than confirmed victims. Full statistics page Sources: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Annual Reports 2000-2024 - FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report 2024 - GASA / Feedzai - Global State of Scams Report 2024 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Dating scam victims	-	▾
Rate: 57 /hrWorldwide. No single global count. Scaled from US FBI reported victims (17,900 in 2024) and typical underreporting (~16% report); romance scams are transnational (INTERPOL). US assumed to represent ~20-25% of global victims; converted to average per hour. Full statistics page Sources: FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) Annual Reports 2000-2024 - FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book (annual, 2014-2024) - FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report 2024 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Romance scam money stolen	-	▾
Rate: 80 $/secWorldwide. No official global total. Scaled from US FTC/FBI figures ($672M-$1.16B reported); romance scam operations are transnational (INTERPOL). US assumed to represent ~25-30% of global losses; converted to average dollars per second. Full statistics page Sources: FTC Consumer Sentinel Network Data Book (annual, 2014-2024) - FTC Data Spotlight - Romance Scammers' Favorite Lies (2023) - FBI IC3 Internet Crime Report 2024 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Ads blocked	-	▾
Rate: 843.750 /secWorldwide. ~912 million people use ad blockers, blocking ~80 ads per day on average = 72.9 billion ads ads blocked per day. Converted to ads per second. Full statistics page Sources: Blockthrough / PageFair - 2022 Adblock Report - Statista - Ad Blocking Topic or Create your own Snapshot ·

Content & Media

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AI images spawned	-	▾
Rate: 393,5 /secWorldwide. Approx. 34.0 million images AI images per day. Converted to images per second. Full statistics page Sources: Everypixel - AI Image Statistics or Create your own Snapshot · Convert: Convert PNG to WebP → · More image converters →
TikTok videos uploaded	-	▾
Rate: 394 /secWorldwide. Published/estimated daily upload figures. Converted to videos per second. Full statistics page Sources: Social Rails - TikTok Statistics or Create your own Snapshot · Convert: Convert MOV to MP4 → · More video converters →
YouTube hours uploaded	-	▾
Rate: 500 /minWorldwide. Official figures: hundreds of hours per minute. 500 hours/min as reference. Full statistics page Sources: Statista - YouTube Hours of Video Uploaded per Minute - YouTube - About (official stats) or Create your own Snapshot · Convert: Convert MOV to MP4 → · More video converters →
AI-generated news articles	-	▾
Rate: 2.500 /hrWorldwide. Approx. 60,000 articles AI news articles per day. Converted to articles per hour. Full statistics page Sources: Pangram Labs - AI-Generated Content Research or Create your own Snapshot ·
AI assistant requests	-	▾
Rate: 3.472.222 /minWorldwide. ChatGPT alone ~2.5B requests/day (OpenAI July 2025); with Claude, Gemini, Copilot etc. conservatively ~4-5B/day. Converted to requests per minute. Full statistics page Sources: OpenAI Signals Data - ChatGPT Usage Statistics 2025 - TechCrunch - AI usage statistics 2025 or Create your own Snapshot ·
AI hallucinations / false answers	-	▾
Rate: 318,5 /secWorldwide. Estimated from ~5 billion AI requests per day (ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, Claude and others) × 9.2% blended hallucination rate (Vectara Leaderboard) = 27.5 million false answers incorrect or fabricated answers per day. Converted to per second. Full statistics page Sources: Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard (2023-2026) - OpenAI Signals Data - ChatGPT Usage Statistics 2025 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Money lost to AI hallucinations	-	▾
Rate: 2.130 $/secWhen AI outputs are wrong or fabricated, the damage is real. Companies using AI for research, legal work, finance, or customer service pay for bad decisions, rework, lawsuits, and reputational hits. F Full statistics page Sources: Forrester - State of Generative AI 2024 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Hours wasted double-checking AI	-	▾
Rate: 7.111 /secWorldwide. Microsoft 2025: knowledge workers spend ~4.3 hours per week fact-checking AI output. Scaled to ~1B knowledge workers globally. Converted to hours per second (~614M hours per day). Full statistics page Sources: Microsoft Research - Shifting Work Patterns with Generative AI or Create your own Snapshot ·
Deepfakes unleashed	-	▾
Rate: 139 /hrWorldwide. Security Hero 2024: 100,000+ new deepfake videos per month on average in 2024 -> ~3,333/day / 24 = 139/hr. 98% of deepfakes are porn; 99% of victims are women (CyberPeace 2023). Full statistics page Sources: Sensity AI - The State of Deepfakes 2020 - Sumsub - Global Deepfake Incidents Research 2023 - Home Security Heroes - State of Deepfakes Report 2024 - CyberPeace - Deepfake Pornography Report or Create your own Snapshot ·
Fake reviews posted or removed	-	▾
Rate: 19.400 /hrWorldwide. Amazon removed 170+ million fake reviews in 2023 (Amazon Transparency Report) – a lower bound on how many were posted. Combined with other platforms (Google, Yelp, Trustpilot), the global daily total of fake reviews posted is estimated at ~19,400/hour. The counter reflects detected/removed reviews as a proxy for posted volume. Full statistics page Sources: Fakespot - Fake Review Analysis or Create your own Snapshot ·
Fake news shared	-	▾
Rate: 3.000.000.000 /dayWorldwide. DemandSage/Statista 2024: ~40% of all social media posts are false or misleading; ~7.5 billion posts per day x 40% = 3.0 billion posts fake posts per day. MIT study in Science: fake news spreads 6x faster than truth. Full statistics page Sources: Statista - Misinformation on Social Media - DemandSage - Fake News Statistics 2024 - Science - The Spread of True and False News Online (Vosoughi et al.) or Create your own Snapshot ·
Songs uploaded that nobody will ever hear	-	▾
Rate: 24.535 /dayWorldwide. Estimated ~24,535 songs songs per day that align with 'nobody will ever hear': Luminate daily new ISRCs × share of catalog with zero plays (45.6M ÷ 184M, Luminate 2023). Same definition as headline; not raw upload count alone. Full statistics page Sources: Luminate 2023 Year-End Music Report (via MBW) - Luminate - Year-End Report 2024 - Music Business Worldwide - Tracks per Day on Streaming Services or Create your own Snapshot ·
New artists joining Spotify	-	▾
Rate: 4.600 /dayWorldwide. Spotify Statistics 2024: ~4,600 artists new artists (first-time distributors) join Spotify per day. Full statistics page Sources: Spotify Newsroom - Creator and Statistics Pages or Create your own Snapshot ·

Attention & Time

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Average human attention span	-	▾
Rate: 8.25 sec (2024); was 12 sec in 2000The most widely cited published measure is 8.3 seconds (Microsoft Research 2015, down from 12 seconds in 2000). No updated study has superseded this figure. Goldfish are often cited at ~9 seconds. This is a reference value, not a live counter. Full statistics page Sources: Microsoft Research - Attention, Multitasking & Digital Communication - Amra & Elma - Attention Span Statistics or Create your own Snapshot ·
Ads seen (per person)	-	▾
Rate: 0,08 /secPer person. Estimates of 4,000-10,000 ad exposures per person per day. Midpoint ~7,000 per day; counter shows how many ads the average person has been exposed to so far today. Full statistics page Sources: Digital Silk - Digital Advertising Exposure Statistics - Colorlib - Advertising Exposure Statistics or Create your own Snapshot ·
Time spent on social media (per person)	-	▾
Rate: 143 minutes/dayPer person. DataReportal/GWI 2024: ~2 hours 23 minutes (143 min) per day per social media user (average across 53 countries, ages 16–64). Full statistics page Sources: DataReportal - Digital 2024: Time Spent on Social Media - Statusbrew - Social Media Time Statistics or Create your own Snapshot ·
Time spent with a friend (per person)	-	▾
Rate: 30 minutes/dayPer person. US BLS American Time Use (2024): ~30 min per day with friends, neighbors, and acquaintances. Full statistics page Sources: BLS American Time Use Survey 2024 - Our World in Data - Time Spent with Others over a Lifetime or Create your own Snapshot ·

Society & Work

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Couples married who met online	-	▾
Rate: 82.200 /dayWorldwide. U.S. data (PNAS 2019 Rosenfeld et al., The Knot 2025): ~2.4M marriages/year, 60% met online. Scaled to global ~50M marriages/year; applying similar share gives ~30M couples per year who met online = 82,200 couples per day. Full statistics page Sources: PNAS - Disintermediating your friends: How Online Dating in the US Displaces Other Ways of Meeting (Rosenfeld et al. 2019) - Pew Research Center - The Who, Where and Why of Online Dating in the U.S. 2023 - The Knot - Real Weddings Study 2025 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Jobs gained because of machines	-	▾
Rate: 1,2 /minNew roles linked to automation and technology, worldwide. Based on recent reported hiring and labour data from multiple regions; scaled to a global average per minute. Full statistics page Sources: WEF - Future of Jobs Report 2025 - BLS - Overview of Employment Statistics or Create your own Snapshot ·
Jobs lost because of machines	-	▾
Rate: 20 /minDisplacement linked to automation and technology, worldwide. Based on official displacement data (BLS: 6.3 million displaced in the U.S. over 2021-2023) scaled to global labour markets. Full statistics page Sources: WEF - Future of Jobs Report 2025 - BLS - Displaced Workers Survey or Create your own Snapshot ·
New robots replacing humans	-	▾
Rate: 62 /hrWorldwide. IFR World Robotics Report 2025: 542,076 industrial robots installed in 2024. Converted to average installations per hour. Full statistics page Sources: IFR - World Robotics Report 2025 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Jobs taken by robots	-	▾
Rate: 228 /hrWorldwide. WEF Future of Jobs Report 2025: ~2 million jobs displaced by automation per year (2024 baseline). MIT Acemoglu & Restrepo confirm causal link. Full statistics page Sources: WEF - Future of Jobs Report 2025 or Create your own Snapshot ·

Digital distractions & road safety

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Deaths due to digital distractions	-	▾
Rate: 11 /hrWorldwide. Based on WHO global road traffic deaths (approx. 1.19 million per year) and conservative shares from official distracted-driving statistics. Actual numbers vary by country and year. Full statistics page Sources: NHTSA - Distracted Driving in 2023 - WHO - Global Status Report on Road Safety 2023 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Accidents due to digital distractions	-	▾
Rate: 370 /hrPeople injured in crashes linked to digital distractions (e.g. texting, scrolling), worldwide. Rate scaled from NHTSA U.S. data (~325,000 injured per year) to global population and road traffic; many countries underreport. Full statistics page Sources: NHTSA - Distracted Driving in 2023 - WHO - Global Status Report on Road Safety 2023 or Create your own Snapshot ·
AV/ADAS crash incidents reported (US)	-	▾
Rate: 6 /dayU.S. only. NHTSA Standing General Order: incidents where an SAE Level 2+ automated/driver-assistance system was active. 2024: 1,384 incidents (3.8/day). 2025 partial (Jan–Nov 17): 1,793 incidents (~5.6/day); the live counter uses this most recent rate. Note: 'involving' an active system ≠ caused by the system. Full statistics page Sources: NHTSA - Standing General Order & ADS Crash Reporting or Create your own Snapshot ·

Security & Privacy

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Phishing emails launched	-	▾
Rate: 39351,9 /secWorldwide. Symantec Internet Security Threat Report 2024: ~3.4 billion phishing emails per day. 3,400,000,000 ÷ 86,400 ≈ 39,351/sec. This measures mass-blast and spear-phishing email volume; APWG separately tracks unique phishing sites and campaigns (a different metric). Full statistics page Sources: APWG Phishing Activity Trends Reports (Archive 2004-2023) - APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report Q4 2024 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Cookie banner clicks (EU)	-	▾
Rate: 783.240 /minEU only. 575 million hours EU/year in consent interactions. Converted to clicks per minute from published traffic data. Full statistics page Sources: Consent Observatory - EU Cookie Consent Research - A Large-Scale Study of Cookie Banner Interaction Tools and Their Impact on Users' Privacy - Legiscope - Cookie banners: 575 million hours or Create your own Snapshot ·

Environment & Energy

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Electronic waste thrown away	-	▾
Rate: 1966,5 kg/secWorldwide. E-waste tracked in millions of tonnes per year globally. 62 million tonnes in 2022. Only 22.3% documented as recycled. Converted to kg per second. Full statistics page Sources: The Global E-waste Monitor 2014 - The Global E-waste Monitor 2017 - The Global E-waste Monitor 2020 - The Global E-waste Monitor 2024 - ITU - E-waste Statistics and Environment or Create your own Snapshot ·
Gold thrown away with e-waste	-	▾
+0,02 kg per second. That's ~0,9 kg per minute.≈ 500 tonnes of gold are lost in e-waste every year, worth about $15 billion. Full statistics page Sources: The Global E-waste Monitor 2024 or Create your own Snapshot ·
Silica processed for electronics and tech	-	▾
Rate: 26.300 t/dayWorldwide. Silicon for electronics produced from silica/quartz. USGS/Statista: ~9 Mt silicon produced 2023; ~50% for electronics. Stoichiometric conversion SiO2->Si (~2.14:1) gives ~9.6 Mt silica/year = 26,300 t/day. Full statistics page Sources: USGS - Silicon Statistics and Information - Statista - Silicon / Electronics Production or Create your own Snapshot ·
Power data centers burn	-	▾
Rate: 63.120.000.000 iPhone charges/minWorldwide. Data centers use roughly 1-2% of global electricity. Shown as equivalent full iPhone charges: 1 household-day = 30 kWh = 2,400 charges. Full statistics page Sources: IEA - Data Centres and Data Transmission Networks or Create your own Snapshot ·
Water consumed by data centers	-	▾
Rate: 1.808.219.178 L/dayWorldwide. Global data center water consumption estimated at ~660 billion liters per year (2025 estimate, Nature Machine Intelligence / UC Riverside). That is ~1.81 billion liters per day ÷ 86,400 seconds ≈ 20,900 liters/second. Individual hyperscale facilities use 11–19 million liters/day; most of the world's ~8,000 data centers are far smaller. Full statistics page Sources: FDM Group - Environmental Impact of Digitalisation or Create your own Snapshot ·

Digital Life

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Emails nobody ever opened	-	▾
Rate: 1.464.352 /secWorldwide. Billions of emails are sent every day; a large share are never read (~35% unread). Converted to unread emails per second. Full statistics page Sources: Statista - Number of Emails Sent Worldwide per Day or Create your own Snapshot ·
Phones plugged in to charge	-	▾
Rate: 5.006.944 /minWorldwide. The "per minute" rate is derived from device count and typical charging frequency (~once per day per device). Converted to charge sessions per minute. Full statistics page Sources: Statista - Smartphones Topic or Create your own Snapshot ·
New internet users per day (net)	-	▾
Rate: 265.000 /dayWorldwide. DataReportal 2024: net ~265,000 new internet users per day (year-on-year user growth). This is net annual growth, not absolute lifetime first-timers – it includes new users but may also reflect some who lapsed and returned. Full statistics page Sources: DataReportal - Digital 2024: State of Internet Adoption or Create your own Snapshot ·

Infrastructure

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Internet traffic (IX-measured proxy)	-	▾
Rate: 2,5 Terabyte/secMajor Internet Exchange (IX) infrastructure proxy. In 2025, major global IXPs reported ~79 Exabytes combined. 79,000,000 TB ÷ 31,536,000 sec ≈ 2.5 TB/sec. This is a measurable subset of total internet traffic – total global IP traffic is ~382 TB/sec (Sandvine 2024), roughly 150× higher. Full statistics page Sources: Cisco - Annual Internet Report / Visual Networking Index - DE-CIX - Internet Exchange Traffic Statistics - Sandvine - Global Internet Phenomena Report 2024 or Create your own Snapshot ·
New websites / webpages online	-	▾
Rate: 870 /minWorldwide. New websites and webpages coming online. Approx. 870 pages new pages/sites per minute. Full statistics page Sources: Netcraft - Web Server Survey - VeriSign - Domain Name Industry Brief or Create your own Snapshot ·
Hard drives that died	-	▾
Rate: 150 /minWorldwide. Hard drives have a measurable annual failure rate (AFR). Extrapolated from global installed drive base to failures per minute. Full statistics page Sources: Backblaze - Hard Drive Stats and Reliability Reports or Create your own Snapshot ·
New surveillance cameras installed	-	▾
Rate: 6 /secWorldwide. ~198.7 million cameras surveillance cameras sold per year. Converted to cameras per second. Full statistics page Sources: Statista - Surveillance Industry Topic or Create your own Snapshot ·
Voice-enabled smart home devices shipped	-	▾
Rate: 380 /minWorldwide. ~200 million voice-enabled smart home devices (smart speakers, smart displays, and voice-enabled hubs) shipped per year (Statista/TechInsights 2024). Converted to ~380 devices per minute. Pure smart speaker shipments are ~87 million/year; the counter uses the broader voice-device category. Full statistics page Sources: Statista - Smart Speakers Topic or Create your own Snapshot ·

Odd & Unexpected

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Confirmed aliens on Earth	-	▾
Rate: 0 /secAccording to current scientific consensus, no confirmed extraterrestrial life has been detected. Full statistics page Sources: NASA Astrobiology - Search for Life or Create your own Snapshot ·
Unconfirmed UFO sightings	-	▾
Rate: 2,5 /hrWorldwide. Reports submitted to reporting centers, not verified events. Rate scaled from NUFORC/MUFON U.S. reporting volumes to a global estimate. Converted to an average per hour. Full statistics page Sources: NUFORC - National UFO Reporting Center - MUFON - Mutual UFO Network or Create your own Snapshot ·
Websites that go offline	-	▾
Rate: 100.000 /dayWorldwide. DNIB Q4 2024: ~364M domain registrations; ~26.1% of domains up for renewal are not renewed. Estimated 100,000 domains domain expirations per day. Full statistics page Sources: Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB) Q4 2024 - Website Rating - Domain & Hosting Statistics 2024 or Create your own Snapshot ·

All numbers here come from public annual reports (WHO, FBI, DataReportal, and others) and are turned into real-time estimates for this live statistics dashboard. We document sources and how we calculate everything on the methodology page.

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What you can find here

The counters cover AI hallucinations, deepfakes, phishing emails, e-waste, jobs displaced by automation, surveillance cameras, and more across 10 categories. Each statistic has its own page with historical data, sources, and context. Browse all statistics.

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We take annual or periodic figures from sources like the WHO, FBI, UN, and DataReportal and convert them into a per-second rate. Your browser then multiplies that rate by the time that has passed since midnight or since January 1st. The underlying rates are fixed until a newer study is published, at which point they get updated manually. For the full calculation logic and source list, see the methodology page.

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What is AnythingCounter?: A live dashboard that shows real-time estimates of what happens every second in the digital world. You see numbers for AI hallucinations, deepfakes, phishing, e-waste, jobs lost to automation, and more. We take global statistics and turn them into counters that update continuously so you can watch digital activity in real time.
How are the statistics calculated?: We use published yearly or periodic stats from international bodies, research institutes, and cybersecurity reports. Those figures get converted into per-second or per-day rates and shown as live counters. Full sources and how we calculate everything: our methodology page.
Are the numbers real or estimated?: They're estimates based on real data. We take published statistics and convert them into real-time rates to show the scale of digital activity. Each counter links to its sources so you can check the underlying data.
How often do the counters update?: The numbers tick every second in your browser. The rates behind them come from the latest research and reports we could find; we update those when new data is published.

Data sources: Amra & Elma 2024, Anthropic, APWG, Axios, Backblaze Drive Stats, BLS American Time Use, BLS Displaced Workers, BLS Employment, Cisco VNI, Cloudflare, Colorlib, Cornell, CyberPeace 2023, Cyberbullying Research Center, DataReportal, DemandSage, DE-CIX, Digital Silk, Domain Name Industry Brief (DNIB), EIA, Eksposure, ENERGY STAR, Everypixel, FDM Group 2024, Fakespot, FBI IC3 2024, Feedzai, Forrester Research 2024, Freedom House 2024, FTC, G2, GASA Global State of Scams 2024, Google AI, Hostinger, IFR World Robotics 2025, INTERPOL, ITU E-waste, Legiscope, Luminate, Microsoft Research, Microsoft 2025, Music Business Worldwide 2024, MUFON, NASA Astrobiology, Netcraft, NewsCatcher, NHTSA, NUFORC, OpenAI, Our World in Data, PageFair, Pangram Labs, Photutorial, PNAS 2024, Science (MIT), Security Hero 2024, seosandwich.com 2024, Social Rails, Spotify 2024, Statista, Statusbrew, The Knot 2025, The Times, TechCrunch 2025, UN Global E-waste Monitor, US Geological Survey, Vectara Hallucination Leaderboard 2025, VeriSign, Website Rating 2024, WEF Future of Jobs 2025, WHO, YouTube

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