Sun to bring light to 99 percent of world’s population at once Saturday Nearly the entire world’s population

[Shawnster]

EarthSky.org crunched the numbers. At 11:15 Universal time, or 7:15 a.m. Eastern time, on July 8 each year, about 96 percent of the planet’s population is bathed in at least a bit of sunlight. An additional 3 percent is in “astronomical twilight,” which occurs when the sun is below the horizon but its glow still illuminates a patch of the sky. This means, 99 percent of Earth’s nearly 8 billion residents will be on the sunlit side of Earth at the same time. July 8 turns out to be the day that most people around the planet experience daylight at the same time

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/07/sunlight-99-percent-earth-july8/