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whats also easily forgotten is just how many people are alive right now. the current estimate is that there have roughly been 105 billion birth since 50 000BC,
by 411111111111111 5y ago
whats also easily forgotten is just how many people are alive right now.
the current estimate is that there have roughly been 105 billion birth since 50 000BC, with our current world population at almost 8 billion... about 8% of all humans that have ever lived are currently still alive.
- bamboozled 5y agoWhat you're also forgetting is those huge numbers are often from countries where people probably do still watch their siblings die.
- 411111111111111 5y agoYour phrasing makes it sound as if most people alive have terrible living conditions and high early mortality... Which is incorrect. The misery is pretty localized in Africa and some places in the middle east, which is less then 20% of the population. Life could be better in a lot of places, but it's incomparably better to life under the churches in the dark ages for example.