Nature · GBIF · annual
Every sighting, counted.
GBIF holds more than three billion species occurrence records from museums, monitoring programmes and phone apps. Counted per country and per year, it is a record of biodiversity monitoring effort as much as of biodiversity itself.
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NLD 8.0M
Most records
Plantae 41.7M
Largest kingdom
30
Countries tracked
2000
Record since
Species observations, latest yearGBIF · records per country
Source: GBIF.org
Observations per yearGBIF · annual · records · trend line open
Source: GBIF.org
Records by kingdomGBIF · annual · stacked · contribution open
Source: GBIF.org
Where the records come fromGBIF · latest year · share of the tracked total
Source: GBIF.org
Ranked by recordsGBIF · latest year · log scale
Source: GBIF.org
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