A Geography teacher uses Gemini to build a counter of births and deaths around the world
“Pulso Demográfico Mundial en Tiempo Real”, by Ricardo Chao Prieto, simulates in real time the births and deaths in each country, based on the UN’s population projections for 2026.
Ricardo Chao Prieto, a teacher of Geography and History, has embedded the app in a post on Geografiando, the Year 9 Geography blog of the Agustinos Fathers’ school in León, and shared it in the group as made with Gemini. It starts from an estimated world population of about 8.326 billion people and keeps adding births, at an average of about 4.2 per second, and deaths, about 2 per second.
These are not real records but a statistical simulation using each country’s rates, as the app itself states. It shows the net growth accumulated during the session, lets users filter by continent, speed up by five or twenty times and pause, and includes a map and a table by country with its population, birth rate and death rate. The blog post accompanies it with the daily figures and a chart on the fall in the global fertility rate. For the classroom, it makes visible figures that are hard to picture when written down.
A Geography teacher uses Gemini to build a counter of births and deaths around the world
“Pulso Demográfico Mundial en Tiempo Real”, by Ricardo Chao Prieto, simulates in real time the births and deaths in each country, based on the UN’s population projections for 2026.
Ricardo Chao Prieto, a teacher of Geography and History, has embedded the app in a post on Geografiando, the Year 9 Geography blog of the Agustinos Fathers’ school in León, and shared it in the group as made with Gemini. It starts from an estimated world population of about 8.326 billion people and keeps adding births, at an average of about 4.2 per second, and deaths, about 2 per second.
These are not real records but a statistical simulation using each country’s rates, as the app itself states. It shows the net growth accumulated during the session, lets users filter by continent, speed up by five or twenty times and pause, and includes a map and a table by country with its population, birth rate and death rate. The blog post accompanies it with the daily figures and a chart on the fall in the global fertility rate. For the classroom, it makes visible figures that are hard to picture when written down.
