About AnythingCounter

What this site is

AnythingCounter takes published global data and turns it into counters that tick in real time. You can watch how many phishing emails have been sent today, how much e-waste the world has generated this year, or how many AI requests have been processed since midnight. The numbers come from official reports and peer-reviewed research, not guesswork.

The idea is simple: big annual statistics are hard to grasp. Seeing them tick up by the second makes the scale easier to understand.

Who built it

AnythingCounter was built and is maintained by Mario Wienerroither, based in Vienna, Austria. It started as a personal project to visualize data that normally gets buried in long reports. The site covers topics like AI, cybercrime, automation, e-waste, social media, and road safety, anything where the raw numbers tell a story that headlines often miss.

Contact: [email protected]

How the numbers work

Each counter is based on a rate derived from annual or periodic figures published by organizations like the WHO, FBI, UN, DataReportal, and others. That rate is divided down to a per-second figure and multiplied by how many seconds have passed since midnight or since the start of the year, depending on what makes sense for that statistic.

The counters do not pull live data from external feeds. The underlying rates are fixed until a newer study or official report is published, at which point they get updated manually. Every statistic page lists its sources and explains how the number was derived.

Full details on the calculation approach are on the methodology page.

What we do not do

We do not use Wikipedia, press releases, or marketing white papers as sources. We do not present forecasts as current live data. We do not invent numbers or round figures to make them sound more dramatic. Where data is limited or regionally restricted, we say so on the relevant page.

Get in touch

If you spotted an error, want to suggest a new statistic, or have a press inquiry, reach out at [email protected]. Corrections are taken seriously and applied quickly when a mistake is confirmed.

Legal information including address and VAT number is on the Imprint page.