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give me some context; how many meters per a person are we at currently? / Then give me some focus; what will it be at in my life span... 50 years?
by redorb 16y ago
give me some context; how many meters per a person are we at currently? / Then give me some focus; what will it be at in my life span... 50 years?
- kalid 16y agoJust for fun, I made a quick calc for you: http://tinyurl.com/3xl32bx http://tinyurl.com/3xl32bx In 50 years at 1.3% growth we'll basically double our population, and go from about 8000 m^2 per person to 4000 m^2 per person. After 780 years, the growth starts adding up, you can play with the numbers.
- jackowayed 16y agoWow, instacalc is pretty awesome.
- jackowayed 16y agoThe population will increase by a factor of exp(.013780) = 25336.5 So we should be at roughly 25,336 meters / person currently. (But remember that plenty of that is more-or-less unlivable--Siberia and the like.) In 50 years, the population will have increased by a factor of exp(.013 50) = 1.91554, so in the next 50 years population will roughly double, so that number will go down to about 13k meters/person.
- rjett 16y agoUsing data from the 2000 US Census, Manhattan, the United States' most dense city, had 25,836 people per square km or 0.025836 people per square meter.
- stck 16y agoThat's roughly 38 square meters per person. For the most dense city, that's plenty of space.