How many people have ever lived on Earth?
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#2If you are just curious, the number is 117B people who was ever born on Earth. High amount of guesstimates and assumptions involved. Yadda yadda popsci article phrases.
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#3Why do I keep (mis)remembering a fact that most members of the human race are alive right now?
Re: How many people have ever lived on Earth?
#4If you are just curious, the number is 117B people who was ever born on Earth. High amount of guesstimates and assumptions involved. Yadda yadda popsci article phrases.
Now wonder how many people have been born anywhere but Earth
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#5All of them.
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#6Why do I keep (mis)remembering a fact that most members of the human race are alive right now?
It's not most, but it's still remarkable that about 5% of humans who have ever lived haven't died.
Re: How many people have ever lived on Earth?
#7If you are just curious, the number is 117B people who was ever born on Earth. High amount of guesstimates and assumptions involved. Yadda yadda popsci article phrases.
what are the error bands on this?
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#8Why do I keep (mis)remembering a fact that most members of the human race are alive right now?
i have the same (mis)memory.. where is this from?
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#9Why do I keep (mis)remembering a fact that most members of the human race are alive right now?
I've never heard most, but I think back the population of earth was only about 6 billion there were people claiming that about 1/5 of people who have ever lived are alive right now.
I've read that at the smallest bottleneck our species had fewer than 10,000 individuals, although I don't think that sad state lasted long.