wild animals: the year you were born, and now

born 1950 100 → 23 index, 1970 = 100 wild vertebrate populations are on average about 77% smaller than in 1970. before that, nobody was keeping the index.

method WWF Living Planet Index 2024, 1970 = 1, interpolated.

born 1970 100 → 23 index, 1970 = 100 wild vertebrate populations are on average about 77% smaller than when you were born.

an average of population trends, not a count of animals. habitat loss to farming is the largest driver on land; fishing at sea.

born 1990 59 → 23 index, 1970 = 100 wild vertebrate populations are on average about 61% smaller than when you were born.

an average of population trends, not a count of animals. habitat loss to farming is the largest driver on land; fishing at sea.

born 2010 35 → 23 index, 1970 = 100 wild vertebrate populations are on average about 34% smaller than when you were born.

an average of population trends, not a count of animals. habitat loss to farming is the largest driver on land; fishing at sea.

how this number is built

method

WWF Living Planet Index 2024, 1970 = 1, interpolated.

range

index CI roughly ±10 points

confidence

estimate

weakness

an average of population trends, not a count of animals; the site says so on screen.

dispute

dispute LGR-153 · corrections are credited

data

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