Earth Statistics: Straight-Up Stats of Earth

Published on: September 30, 2018 | Last Updated: May 12, 2019

Here’s Earth in numbers.

It’s all the statistics that matters most of our planet.

It’s size, orbit, rotation, age, distance and land cover.

Check it out.

READ MORE: Check out the full-size Earth infographic

Earth

Measurements

Radius: 6,371 km

Surface Area: 510,000,000 km²

Volume: 1,000,000,000,000 km³

Earth Rotation

Earth spins at 1600 km/hr

A full day is clocked at 23h 56min 4sec

Earth Rotation

Earth Age

Age

Age: 4.54 billion ± 0.05 years old

Distance

To the Moon: 384,400 km

To the Sun: 149,600,000 km

Earth Facts

Water

Water

Water covers 70% of the surface

97% is salted. 3% is fresh.

Earth Layers

Crust: 0-35 km

Mantle: 35-2,890 km

Core: 2,890-6,360 km

Earth Layers

Temperature

Temperature

Core temperature: 5,500°C

Surface Temperature: -88 to 58°C

Orbit

Orbit period: 365.26 days

Earth Orbit

Geodesy and Earth Stats

Shape

Oblate Spheroid

Semi-major Axis: 6,378,137.0 m

Semi-minor Axis is 6,356,752.3 m

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