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Puerto Rico's vanishing population keeps Cogito busy between documentaries

A film posted nineteen months ago, on an island that could shrink to a million people by 2100, has passed two million views.

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Cogito Story of October 5, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Puerto Rico Is Dying: Here's Why

Nineteen months after it went up, "Puerto Rico Is Dying: Here's Why" is still the film people find first on Cogito. Domhnall O Luchrain's documentary sets the island's beaches and mountains against a harder picture: a population that has lost about 15% of its people since 2006, a birth rate the description puts below Japan's, and electricity bills that are high even when the blackouts last for weeks. It has now passed two million views.

Right behind it is "Inside Morocco's Secret War for Western Sahara," a year old and close to a million. Its subject is the Berm, a sand wall some 2,700 kilometers long that the film describes as ringed by millions of landmines, cutting through a territory Spain once promised a vote on its future. Further back, the spring film on Kashmir keeps a quieter pace.

No new documentary went up, and the channel ran a little under its usual daily pace, with the subscriber count holding at 798,000. Among the explainer and history channels close to its size, it sat in the middle by views gained, while BBC Timestamp and Maxinomics had far busier weeks. For a one-man channel built on maps and motion graphics, that hardly looks like a slowdown.

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The videos drawing views on Cogito right now

Inside Morocco's Secret War for Western Sahara971,731 views

The Secret War For Kashmir190,490 views

The facts

Channel: Cogito
Subscribers: 798,000
Channel views, last 7 days: 139,509
Videos published this week: 0

The numbers

Here is how Cogito's channel and its busiest films moved over the week.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

3,065,017

1,645,963

270,802

260,143

139,509

British Council | English

135,190

Suibhne

59,116

subscribers

798,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

64,810,342

views per day

18,214

typical day: 20,642

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

BBC Timestamp

950,000

British Council | English

937,000

922,000

902,000

798,000

787,000

744,000

700,000

688,000

As of October 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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