1 Be born anywhere
A country is drawn by its real share of the world's births.
1 in 8 Billion
8 billion lives. You get one.
You are born somewhere you did not choose, and then you decide what to do with it.
Free · No download · 172 countries · 15+
Every life looks
ordinary from inside.
A farm at dawn. A night shift. A new country at seven. None of these people chose the life they were handed. Neither will you.
01 A farm before sunrise
Some lives begin with chores, not alarms.
02 A new country at seven
Your whole vocabulary arrives in a suitcase.
03 Two mothers, one Sunday
The world still writes down one father and one mother.
04 A desk built for a wheelchair
The building was not. You make it fit.
05 The 4 a.m. shift
The city sleeps through the work that wakes it.
06 A letter at eighty
Some things are only said when they can be kept.
One roll. One life.
You do not choose the country, the family, or the year. You only decide what to do with the years you get.
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2 Live your days
A year passes in about 20 seconds. Pause, speed up, or watch.
3 Make your choices
School, work, love, leaving home. Choices bend the odds.
4 Meet your ending
Death comes from real life tables, not a script.
The numbers are real.
Every draw, every year and every ending is built on public statistics — not a random number generator with a story attached.
0 Babies born today
0 People who died today
172 Countries and territories
134M Births a year
8.19B People alive right now
4.3 Births every second
Sources: UN World Population Prospects 2024 · UN IGME · World Bank WDI · WHO · UNESCO UIS · UNDP HDR. Birth shares are recalculated from annual births, not population size.
Your life starts somewhere.
You just don't choose where.
One roll, one country, one life — from the first day to the last.
Be bornQuestions
Is 1 in 8 Billion free?
Yes. It is free to play in your browser, with no account and no download. Open the page, draw a birth, and live one life to its end.
How long does one life take?
About 25 to 40 minutes, depending on the pace you choose. A year passes in about 20 seconds at 1×, and you can pause or speed up at any time.
Where does the data come from?
Birth shares, life expectancy and mortality come from UN World Population Prospects 2024 and UN IGME; income, schooling, urbanisation and health spending come from the World Bank, WHO and UNESCO.
Is this the official site?
This is an independent edition. It is not affiliated with 1in8b.life, the original 1 in 8 Billion project.
The draw · 217 countries
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One country, drawn by its real share of the world's births. Live the life year by year, or roll again.