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What number human were you when you were born?

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posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 12:58 PM
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The BBC's website has an interesting tool up right now that will give you a broad sense of where you fit in to the population chronologically. It starts with an estimate of 500,000,000 people in the year 1500 and shows you, according to your birthday, about where you fall in to line with everyone else.

www.bbc.co.uk...

I happened to fall in at around the 4.9 billion mark in 1986 and already we're at 7 and should be around 10 by 2050. I, for one, am all for lowering our population, or at least slowing the explosive increase we're dealing with right now.

FYI just realized the month/date are reversed to what my American brain is used to - not that it matters much in an estimate anyway but thought I'd mention
edit on 27-10-2011 by Hawking because: (no reason given)



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:01 PM
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Does this also count the hallow people?



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:03 PM
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It would be helpful if all humans received a unique identifying number at birth.

Monetary exchanges could then be linked to your unique identifying number.



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:03 PM
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I was 4,830,017,645th
Whoa buddy! That's pretty cool. Looks like we need to cool it on breeding. We are living on low resourses as it is.



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:03 PM
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Strange.. from 1500 to 1749 there where precisely 500.000 people on earth



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:04 PM
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Originally posted by Hawking
I, for one, am all for lowering our population, or at least slowing the explosive increase we're dealing with right now.


Well you're showing the explosive increase, now lets see what you propose for the lowing of population.

I was born in the 5.6 B mark.
So who's going to volunteer to lower our population?



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:04 PM
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How can people know we are 7 billion on earth ?
did they scanned the entire planet ?

maybe 8, 9 or 10 ?
counting everyone everywhere and even underground



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:06 PM
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Shhh don't ask questions, it's BBC.



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:09 PM
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im number 3,091,840,281
2nd



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:09 PM
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When you were born, you were the:4,406,924,737th person alive on Earth

78,969,936,595th person to have lived since history began.

Its mad...in 31 years the population has nearly doubled.



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:11 PM
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Originally posted by Ben81
How can people know we are 7 billion on earth ?
did they scanned the entire planet ?

maybe 8, 9 or 10 ?
counting everyone everywhere and even underground


Well we know the scientific polls are +/-5



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:14 PM
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How can people know we are 7 billion on earth ?


An excellent question. The population is whatever they say it is. No questions asked.



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:17 PM
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3,698,664,045th

Why does even this make me feel old?



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:18 PM
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4,213,633,916th
person alive on Earth
78,663,644,353rd



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:26 PM
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When you were born, you were the: 3,647,423,276th


And that was 1969.. :-)



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:26 PM
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Strange.. from 1500 to 1749 there where precisely 500.000 people on earth

Yes, that is very strange.
I didn't realize that 'Estimated' = 'Precise'.

Learn something new every day.



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:42 PM
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Originally posted by OneMeanMom
I was 4,830,017,645th
Whoa buddy! That's pretty cool. Looks like we need to cool it on breeding. We are living on low resourses as it is.


wow what a small world, i was number 4,830,017,644


crazy!



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:48 PM
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Thats very cool, I am 4,533,454,396th.

BBC leads to this link 7 billion and me

Its from the UN, here you enter a few more details and then it stated that 79,171,683,508 people were born before me. They also sort it by continent. They explain how they come up with the data and state these points as the assumptions made.


All figures regarding the population sizes of the world, regions, and countries - total and disaggregated by age and sex - from 1950 onward are based on UN Population Division. World Population Prospects. The 2010 Revision. All figures regarding the proportions of urban and rural population of the world, regions, and countries, as well as population sizes of cities over 750,000 inhabitants, are based on UN Population Division. World Urbanization Prospects. The 2009 Revision. World and regional populations before 1950 are based on figures published by the UN Population Division. The World at Six Billion, complemented by additional data points from other sources. The computation of the number of people that ever lived on earth is based on the same methodology as Carl Haub. How many people have ever lived on earth ? Population Today 1995 (updated in 2002). However, the results are lower because this spreadsheet uses some population data for intermediate points in time that were not included in Haub's original article. Data from 1950 onward are also different. The number of births that occurred on any particular day is a simple average that does not consider seasonal fluctuations of birth rates. Male fertility is assumed to be equal to female fertility, shifted forward by 3 years. Data on contraceptive prevalence by country are based on UN Population Division. World Contraceptive Use 2010. The estimates of species extinction are based on Wilson, Edward O. The diversity of Life, The Belknap Press of Harvard university Press, Cambridge, Mass.1992. Maternal mortality data are from WHO/UNICEF/UNFPA/World Bank. Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2008. Data on marital status are from UN Population Division. World Marriage Data 2008. Thie program only works for people who is younger than 100 years old.


(hope that came out right) You can see this after you enter your details.

It also has some pretty cool features for example another 345,262 were born on the same day as me and whats more curious is that 1,781,227,779 were living in cities and towns while 2,752,217,501 were living in rural areas - I am only 30 and I bet that has changed somewhat today.

Thanks for the thread and links some interesting stuff.



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:54 PM
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1,577,994,242

Bit of a depressing number, the total amount of people who have passed on since I was born.

To be fair I would have assumed it to be more. Gives a plus and minus and states that the population today is 6,999,242,949

They also must have a formula as the title page adds every few seconds.



posted on Oct, 27 2011 @ 01:56 PM
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OK sorry for getting carried away, but some of these stats just hit you in the face.

740,417 of the 10 million species since I was born have become extinct. Harsh, so many







 
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