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How Many People Have Ever Lived On Earth?

Year Population Births per 1,000 Births Between Benchmarks
50,000 B.C. 2 - -
8000 B.C. 5,000,000 80 1,137,789,769
1 A.D. 300,000,000 80 46,025,332,354
1200 450,000,000 60 26,591,343,000
1650 500,000,000 60 12,782,002,453
1750 795,000,000 50 3,171,931,513
1850 1,265,000,000 40 4,046,240,009
1900 1,656,000,000 40 2,900,237,856
1950 2,516,000,000 31-38 3,390,198,215
1995 5,760,000,000 31 5,427,305,000
2002 6,215,000,000 23 983,987,500

Number who have ever been born 106,456,367,669
World population in mid-2002 6,215,000,000
Percent of those ever born who are living in 2002 5.8

Source: Population Reference Bureau estimates.

Posted By: SCC 28 on November 25th 2008 at 14:41:16

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Some Dutch pen has worked out that 107.5 billion humans have been born so far (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 25, 14:39:40
- ahem (General Chat) - SCC 28, Nov 25, 14:41:16
  - ... (General Chat) - SCC 28, Nov 25, 14:42:04
    - Yeah, but now a Dutch pen has done it (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 25, 14:44:45
      - it's very interesting tho (General Chat) - SCC 28, Nov 25, 14:45:15
        
        Well, exponential growth intut (n/m) (General Chat) - Steve in Holland, Nov 25, 14:47:14
        
        pretty much (General Chat) - SCC 28, Nov 25, 14:47:58
        
        it's bad enough at the moment (General Chat) - Charles21, Nov 25, 14:48:46

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