The past
The life uses the statistics of the year it lands in, and real history can appear.
v0.6.88 beta · 141 countries · a free life
1 in 8 Billion
About four babies are born every second. 1 in 8 Billion lets you become one of them and live that life to the end, in the browser, on statistics from 141 countries.
Be bornChoose a world first
The birth screen asks which world you enter before it draws a country. There are four choices.
Today
The statistics you start with are the ones that stay until the life ends.
The future
The coming world is built from projections, not from a frozen present.
Any world
The year of birth is left to the draw instead of being locked to now.
Where you play
There is no install. You play in the browser, and the life is the website itself at 1in8b.life.
English has been available since the v0.4.41 beta of 6 October 2026: the same simulation, the same 141 countries, with money shown in US dollars. The current build is v0.6.88 beta, dated 13 October 2026.
The operator is Jin’s Earth, at 6-2160 Highway 7 #1024, Vaughan, ON L4K 1W6, Canada, phone +1 205-594-8613. The life is free from start to finish. Paying never changes a life in the simulation. It is made for ages 15 and up. Players under 15 should use it with a parent or guardian.
Then a country is drawn
One draw picks a country by its yearly births. The other picks by the share of people alive now. Either way, life starts at age 0. You do not choose the birthplace. That is the premise: where you are born is not a menu.
India is 17.68 percent of yearly births, about 1 in 6. China is 6.78 percent, Nigeria 5.72, Pakistan 5.24, Indonesia 3.41 and DR Congo 3.33. Those six lead the babies-born-now weights. The other 135 birthplaces share the rest.
How long the sitting is
A life can take about 30 minutes, about 1 hour, or about 1.5 hours. At the one-hour length, a year passes in about 40 to 60 seconds. You can pause or speed up while living. The pace controls include Pause and Next decision, and the live screen offers 1×, 2×, 4×, 8×, 12× and 16×.
At 5, 15, 30, 50 and 70, time stops and asks one question. Each year has a focus. The choices cover school, work, love, moving abroad and medical care. Choices change a life, but it is hard to fully escape the statistics of the place you were born.
What you can keep
The keepsake pass is $3, or 4,000 won in Korean, taxes included. Payment is handled by Link, run by Stripe. The pass adds the House of Past Lives and does not change the simulated life. A keepsake payment is refunded in full within 30 days.
The browser keeps the last 10 lives, so the final record and the share card can be opened again. Memorials are a place for a finished life. Anyone can visit, light a candle and leave a line.
Where the numbers come from
The live set is 141 countries, including Slovakia. Each birthplace has an English name, with the Korean name under it.
Country figures are adapted from UN World Population Prospects 2024, UN IGME, World Bank WDI, WHO, UNESCO UIS, UNDP, ILO, UNAIDS, UNODC, UNICEF and the World Happiness Report 2024, mostly via Our World in Data. Other worlds also use the Maddison Project 2020, UCDP/PRIO and Lee-Lee 2016.