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More people alive today than have ever lived and died - yeoman - 12-30-2007
With the rate of human population growth since WWII my instinct is to say that there are more people alive today than have ever lived and died. I know there are estimates of today's world population but I'd like to find a source of population since humankind began to either confirm or refute my position. Thoughts?
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - RgrF - 12-30-2007
Should this information be forthcoming, what will you do with it?
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - yeoman - 12-30-2007
Win a bet.
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - ho'ard - 12-30-2007
[quote yeoman]Win a bet.
Try the internet. They got all kinda stuff on the internet.
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - x-uri - 12-30-2007
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_085.html
Your instinct would seem to be wrong.
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - ho'ard - 12-30-2007
[quote x-uri]http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_085.html
Your instinct would seem to be wrong.
That info's 20 years old . . . the population could have grown from 5 billion to 60+ billion in the last 20 years, no?
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - yeoman - 12-30-2007
Wow, x-uri, you cost me money but I appreciate the link. I looked lots of places but no could find. I've added Straight Dope to my bookmarks.
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - Maddog - 12-31-2007
Good website. I added it to my bookmarks as well. If you haven't checked out the "damn interesting" website, you should definitely do that.
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - BigGuynRusty - 12-31-2007
His books are better.
BGnR
Re: More people alive today than have ever lived and died - freeradical - 01-01-2008
Here's a good set of links from the census bureau about recent world population trends.
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/
A couple of interesting graphs:
http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idb/worldpopinfo.html