Writing something about population, I stumbled across the Worldometers website. This has the goal of "making world statistics available in a thought-provoking and time relevant format to a wide audience around the world".
It's owned by Dadax, which says it has "no political, governmental, or corporate affiliation". Their website is as unusual as you might hope.
This will be the last post on my University of Bath blog. I've been posting since June 10th 2009 but, 15 years and 2499 posts later, I really have to close it down if I'm to realise my 2010 retirement...
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The only way of telling whether a site is "independent"--i.e. has no government or corporate connections (a claim Dadax/Worldometer makes) -- is on the basis of who funds it. Dadax/Worldometer is extremely secretive and thus probably not completely "neutral" or "objective"--however one chooses to define those terms at present time.