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7 billion people and you: What's your number?


The world's population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks. After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years. Where do you fit into this story of human life?


Me;
When you were born, you were the:
2,956,762,558th
person alive on Earth
76,535,645,443rd
person to have lived since history began

Me:

When you were born, you were the:
3,225,956,602nd person alive on Earth; and
77,045,156,405th person to have lived since history began

Do you feel like a cradle snatcher, Gob?

Me;
When you were born, you were the:
2,956,762,558th
person alive on Earth
76,535,645,443rd
person to have lived since history began

When you were born,
you were the:3,007,533,145thperson alive on Earth
76,631,501,883rd
person to have lived since history began

You're about 50 million people older than me you geezer!

From now on, I'd appreciate it if you would refer to me as "sonny"....

Oh I always think of you as less mature than me Jim.

When you were born, you were the:
3,930,314,169th
person alive on Earth
78,210,985,972nd
person to have lived since history began

You bunch of old farts!

My god, you're a baby.

Only seven billion people, I can’t wait for it to reach fourteen billion and we can get rid of some of this filthy empty space; what we need is more pavement and less green.

Here's mine:

When you were born, you were the:
2,633,328,031st
person alive on Earth
75,897,198,192nd
person to have lived since history began

Seveny-billion or so have already trod the well-worn path of life.

Poor sods.

ETA: the calculator won't accept any date before 1910, those folk are already dead I supppose?

According to reliable sources, the Aztecs used to have symbolic "wars" in which soldiers were sacrificed, in full battle gear, when too much time had elapsed since the last real war. It was thought to be dangerous to have all them warriors floating around with nothing to keep them interested.

And of course the soldiers believed that they would be happy in the afterlife for sacrificing their lives in service to the gods.

The diseases brought by the Europeans took care of this problem.

The point being, wars and plagues are good solutions to overpopulation, "birth control" seeming to have no real impact.

[edited to correct typo]

When you were born, you were the:
3,724,933,819th
person alive on Earth
77,877,910,785th
person to have lived since history began

When you were born, you were the:
2,937,871,775th
person alive on Earth
76,499,594,938th
person to have lived since history began

Holy crap, I'm 20 million people older than Gob (but 300 million younger than Dales!)

dgs stated:

The point being, wars and plagues are good solutions to overpopulation, "birth control" seeming to have no real impact.

Have you studied the demographics of western Europe lately, or even USA/Canada?

When you were born, you were the:
3,895,697,016th
person alive on Earth
78,155,976,177th
person to have lived since history began

You're a baby too!

When you were born, you were the:
4,021,765,206th
person alive on Earth
78,354,210,142nd
person to have lived since history began

It would be far more intricate to calculate, because it would require the interpolating of death data since you were born, but it would be interesting to see where people rank by age among everyone alive today.

I thought I was older than Sean

Kelly's birth date, August 11th, 1971:

3,777,426,788thperson alive on Earth

77,964,606,488th person to have lived since history began

700 million people born between her birth date and mine...

I don't think I'll share that bit of information with her....

She's a baby as well!

Crackpot wrote:I thought I was older than Sean

Young whippersnapper!