How it works
Start once and time advances automatically. Ordinary years pass quickly; new passages stay longer. Pause to read, or choose 1×, 2× or 4×. A completed life is saved automatically. “Live again” draws a fresh birthplace.
A Life in Moments
A Life in Moments
Among around eight billion people, you are one of a kind. Begin again somewhere in the world and see how a life unfolds.
Data & chances
Birthplaces follow each country/area’s share of the 2023 population, not its birth count. Mortality follows UN age-specific life tables. Multi-year bands use a constant annual hazard; age 100+ uses an extrapolated constant hazard. This fixed-year model is not a forecast or a personal lifespan prediction.
Cause of death
Causes use WHO GHE 2023 age-group shares, combined into 27 categories. Missing country data use regional or global estimates, identified on the result. Some infant-only causes are excluded at older ages, so single-year cause shares are approximations. Reference life expectancy is not a deadline.
Living environment
New lives use national living-condition data and original local scenes. The newest available observation from 2019–2023 is shown for each indicator. Missing data stays unknown. School and healthcare indices describe the setting, not your personal chances. Individual stories are fictional, and never alter mortality.
Living conditions
The personal passages are original fiction. Household conditions are simplified, independent draws from available World Bank service-coverage data. They do not describe everyone in a country or alter the national mortality model. Basic access does not imply perfect quality or uninterrupted supply.
Life journal
The latest 60 lives are kept in detail; your lifetime totals remain. Your old save is preserved. Earlier lives and purchases remain yours; new lives use a separate journal.
Journal themes
Permanent appearance only. Themes never change birthplace, lifespan or chances. Existing purchases are recognized.
One in eight billion
The world holds around eight billion people, each with a life of their own. Where we are born, whom we meet and what happens along the way shape different stories. Follow a life unfolding by chance and glimpse another possibility.
Data & chances
- UN World Population Prospects 2024
- WHO Global Health Estimates 2023
- World Bank Open Data
- How does a life unfold?
- Start once and time advances automatically. Ordinary years pass quickly; new passages stay longer. Pause to read, or choose 1×, 2× or 4×. A completed life is saved automatically. “Live again” draws a fresh birthplace.
- How is a birthplace chosen?
- Birthplaces follow each country/area’s share of the 2023 population, not its birth count. Mortality follows UN age-specific life tables. Multi-year bands use a constant annual hazard; age 100+ uses an extrapolated constant hazard. This fixed-year model is not a forecast or a personal lifespan prediction.
