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Population.io

91 points by tnsengimana 3y ago

Towaway69 3y ago
What's with the pessimism here? Be proud, we've reached peak human, humans have never been so successful - in numbers! After all, it's all about numbers.
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samstave 3y ago
Very interesting, but also fairly depressing "You have 38.4 years left of life" and I am older than 62% of the US pop... :-(
- gnulinux 3y ago
  Just focus on improving your performance metrics the next quarter and shipping the project to the customer smoothly and you should be in a good position for the next year.
  - wonderwonder 3y ago
    Man, this is so dark. I laughed
- spdustin 3y ago
  I’m also older than 62% of the US population, and have only 34.9 years left, so you’re on the younger side of that percentile slice.
Night_Thastus 3y ago
Hard to believe we crossed the 8 billion mark. Feels like yesterday we hit 6!
- swah 3y ago
  People must be reproducing somewhere else, not in my 3rd world country.
  - ryzvonusef 3y ago
    From Pakistan, talk of contraceptives is very taboo and early cousin marriage is the norm, our population crossed ~240 million acc to latest census this year, so it's mostly us driving the global population growth.
  - tuatoru 3y ago
    Sub-Saharan Africa mainly, and a few oddball places elsewhere. Some of the Stans.
Ancalagon 3y ago
I did not ask for this existential crisis this morning :( Cool website though!
- capableweb 3y ago
  > I did not ask for this existential crisis this morning :( Personally I have https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html printed and hanging on the wall next to me, and each week I fill another square. Having a real-time view of how long we have left to live have always filled me with energy and hope, somehow. But similarly to you, many people seem to think it's macabre/bizarre.
  - copperx 3y ago
    When I was younger I thought the visualization was really cool and somehow abstract. Now that I have lived a bit more, I find it not macabre, but nonsensical. A terminal disease or an accident could be right around the corner. It seems a bit delusional to have a countable number of days "left". That only the best case scenario. Besides, it's terribly self-centered. If you're taking care of an elderly parent or someone with a terminal disease, then it can be macabre to be so focused on your own mortality. I don't see how it can be motivating. But perhaps I'm missing a key insight.
    - capableweb 3y ago
      > When I was younger I thought the visualization was really cool and somehow abstract. Now that I have lived a bit more, I find it not macabre, but nonsensical. That's funny, it's not until I've gotten older and closer to an actual end that I start finding it motivating and not just distracting and stressful. I guess when I was younger I was more panicked with death. Of course it's not meant to be accurate, but meant to instill "live now" instead of "live in the future", meaning I want meet more with people, stop working as much as I do and do what I enjoy, etc. It's not really a focus, it's something I happen to accidentally glance at in something like a weekly basis. It's not hanging on the side of my display, so I'm not really "focused on my own mortality".
karlmush 3y ago
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mrhether 3y ago
Warning! Don't click it's better that way, as an old man trust me.
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hckrzulu 3y ago
But.. age is just a number, right? also, the back button is broken.
mminer237 3y ago
> {{ 'HOME_TEXT_BIG' | translate }} I don't think it's supposed to do that.
- Minor49er 3y ago
  Give it a moment. It populated for me after several seconds
pizzafeelsright 3y ago
While I will not see my child reach my current age in this life I am excited for the world they will inhabit.
- lukewrites 3y ago
  I'll be up there, but should see my kids reach my current age. Hard for me to be optimistic about the world they'll inherit, though; I'm very concerned about the effects of climate change and the effects of things like diminishing ground water supply and ocean warming. Living in the US, I'm also concerned about their ability to afford healthcare if something catastrophic happens and the lack of meaningful social safety net. We may emigrate from the US to solve these problems. What do you think the world will be like in 40+ years that gives you hope?
  - mchusma 3y ago
    Not OP but short answer: In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death), brain augmentation, AI/machines able to do many things for us, fusion/renewable-based energy abundance, and more. In almost every measurable way the world is better now than it was 20 years ago, and 20 years before that. This is likely to continue. Climate change is concerning, but totally addressable with technology. We absolutely can fix ground water, ocean warming, carbon ratios. It involves will, resources, and the technology to be thoughtful of how we impact the planet, instead of randomly doing it as side effects. There are some "trivial" fixes for many issues that can be implemented if we decide we want to (paint 1/4 the sahara white, solar shades in space, etc). They are not hard and if things get bad we will take them more seriously. Healthcare affordability is essentially a policy issue, but there is no reason in 40 years that healthcare can't be effectively free with AI/Robotics driving down the cost.
    - StevePerkins 3y ago
      > In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death) This is laughable to the point where I suspect trolling/parody. Regardless, there should indeed be scientific advances ahead of us in the next 40 years. With the ongoing collapse in forward-looking fertility rates, there certainly better be.
carimura 3y ago
thanks for reminding me to close the laptop, hug my children, and go for a run.
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wonderwonder 3y ago
Very much makes me question sitting in front of a computer in a career I didn't like while my kids hang out in another room separate from me.
- tomcar288 3y ago
  go to the room next door and spend 30 min playing with them. no one can stop you but you. and you probably won't regret it.
  - wonderwonder 3y ago
    I actually did. Said screw it and we made brownies :) in the oven now
- luxurytent 3y ago
  This "sitting in front of a computer" career gives me (and many others) the flexibility (and luxury in $$) to have a much nicer life than the majority of the population.
- Brajeshwar 3y ago
  If you work in timer-breaks (Pomodoro), that 5-min can always be around kids. I have been working (pretty much) remotely since 2005 when I started work with Disney. Here is one of the many parenting ideas that is fun https://brajeshwar.com/2022/the-quirky-productivity-tip-for-parents-with-kids/ https://brajeshwar.com/2022/the-quirky-productivity-tip-for-...
winrid 3y ago
> You are older than 100.0% of the world population > There are people younger and people older than you Wow, the more you know.
- Jaxan 3y ago
  I get the same…
gremlinsinc 3y ago
That's f'ing depressing. I'm 43, with 39 years left, and I don't feel old but apparently 56% of people are younger, so I'm no spring chicken, lol. It'll also be maybe a miracle if I see 2060.
- zaat 3y ago
  You can try migrating to a country with better life expectancy projection
- wonderwonder 3y ago
  I'm 44. Remember me
tomcar288 3y ago
for my projected lifespan, i don't think this thing is taking into account my blue zone diet, exercise or my intermittent fasting.
- zaat 3y ago
  Does inflicting self torture should be considered as time spent living?
  - 2023throwawayy 3y ago
    Being healthy is self torture now? Seems more torturous to be obese. (Disclaimer: I am obese.)
  - tomcar288 3y ago
    well with regards to exercise: I absolutely love gardening. It's not something I do "for excerise". as for eating healthy. It's all about finding some recipes you like: finding that over on the ven diagram between healthy eating and love to eat. of course if you grew up on a completely fast food diet you're body will be way too addicted. I suppose it's like asking a heroin addict to not do heroin everyday: that may feel like torture too.
standardUser 3y ago
I have this longstanding and pointless goal to live to see the American Tricentennial. According to this site I'll miss it by 10 years! It also just so happens that I'm right in the middle of my (projected) lifespan, which would certainly qualify me as middle-aged. But I refuse to identify as such because I feel Boomers turned it into such a negative phrase. Boomers just generally seemed to obsess over aging and retiring and dying in a way that I thankfully don't see among my Millenial and Gen X peers.
retrocryptid 3y ago
cool idea, but the implementation seems to not scale.
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Willish42 3y ago
After dealing with a terminal illness in my family quite recently, I really have adopted the philosophy that sometimes, it's better not to know... I wonder what the practically immeasurable realized influence of contemplating one's life expectancy is on their actual life expectancy. I'm going to take a walk outside today and try to think less about dark things.
- anonporridge 3y ago
  It probably depends on whether the contemplation triggers you into healthier lifestyle behaviors or triggers you into depression and self destruction. I would hazard a guess that most people haven't developed their philosophy on life well enough to benefit from staring into the abyss. The catch-22 is that the only way to really get to that point is to spend some time wandering through the valley of the shadow of death. Personally, I think that sacrifice is worth it, because the only thing we are all obligated to do in life is die.
eadonmachine 3y ago
> What are the big milestones to expect in your life? > Your next milestone is 08 Aug 2030 when you’ll be the 5th billionth person to be alive in the world. I can't work out what they mean by this.
- Frotag 3y ago
  If you order everyone alive from youngest to oldest on that date, you'll be older than 5 billion people.
  - eadonmachine 3y ago
    Oh! Thank you. They phrased that really badly. "You'll be the 5 billionth oldest person" would've been a lot clearer. Or 5 billionth youngest, whatever lol
Sohcahtoa82 3y ago
I'm almost exactly 50% towards my life expectancy. It's strange to think about. My perception of how long certain eras of my life were is...off. Grade school felt like an absolute eternity, yet I've been with my wife longer than I went to grade school, and yet these last 13 years haven't felt that long. I've done 41 years, and can expect to do another 42.7, based on that site. Those 41 years have felt like a damn long time, yet each year seems to go by faster than the previous, so the second half will feel shorter than the first half. On one hand, that means retirement feels closer, but on the other, it means retirement will feel shorter.
v7engine 3y ago
Feature Suggestion: The website could offer valuable insights on enhancing both life expectancy and quality of life. It could include practical tips, along with estimated increases in life expectancy for each suggestion.
runiq 3y ago
What does this do with the data I provide it with? Couldn't find a privacy policy or anything.
dcb_lu 3y ago
I sort of went deep on this line of thinking a while back and made a calendar of my life[0] along with a script that updates my desktop background every day. Folks tend to find it pretty morbid, but I quite like it in my own way. I got a fair few days left (theoretically, at least) but not an infinite amount. Gives a bit more weight to what would normally be a pretty boring Thursday -- I should make sure I come out of it with something new, however small. [0]: https://dcb.lu/memento-mori https://dcb.lu/memento-mori

91 points by tnsengimana 3y ago

What's with the pessimism here? Be proud, we've reached peak human, humans have never been so successful - in numbers! After all, it's all about numbers.

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samstave 3y ago

Very interesting, but also fairly depressing "You have 38.4 years left of life" and I am older than 62% of the US pop... :-(

gnulinux 3y ago
Just focus on improving your performance metrics the next quarter and shipping the project to the customer smoothly and you should be in a good position for the next year.
- wonderwonder 3y ago
  Man, this is so dark. I laughed
spdustin 3y ago
I’m also older than 62% of the US population, and have only 34.9 years left, so you’re on the younger side of that percentile slice.

Night_Thastus 3y ago

Hard to believe we crossed the 8 billion mark. Feels like yesterday we hit 6!

swah 3y ago
People must be reproducing somewhere else, not in my 3rd world country.
- ryzvonusef 3y ago
  From Pakistan, talk of contraceptives is very taboo and early cousin marriage is the norm, our population crossed ~240 million acc to latest census this year, so it's mostly us driving the global population growth.
- tuatoru 3y ago
  Sub-Saharan Africa mainly, and a few oddball places elsewhere. Some of the Stans.

Ancalagon 3y ago

I did not ask for this existential crisis this morning :( Cool website though!

capableweb 3y ago
> I did not ask for this existential crisis this morning :( Personally I have https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html https://www.bryanbraun.com/your-life/weeks.html printed and hanging on the wall next to me, and each week I fill another square. Having a real-time view of how long we have left to live have always filled me with energy and hope, somehow. But similarly to you, many people seem to think it's macabre/bizarre.
- copperx 3y ago
  When I was younger I thought the visualization was really cool and somehow abstract. Now that I have lived a bit more, I find it not macabre, but nonsensical. A terminal disease or an accident could be right around the corner. It seems a bit delusional to have a countable number of days "left". That only the best case scenario. Besides, it's terribly self-centered. If you're taking care of an elderly parent or someone with a terminal disease, then it can be macabre to be so focused on your own mortality. I don't see how it can be motivating. But perhaps I'm missing a key insight.
  - capableweb 3y ago
    > When I was younger I thought the visualization was really cool and somehow abstract. Now that I have lived a bit more, I find it not macabre, but nonsensical. That's funny, it's not until I've gotten older and closer to an actual end that I start finding it motivating and not just distracting and stressful. I guess when I was younger I was more panicked with death. Of course it's not meant to be accurate, but meant to instill "live now" instead of "live in the future", meaning I want meet more with people, stop working as much as I do and do what I enjoy, etc. It's not really a focus, it's something I happen to accidentally glance at in something like a weekly basis. It's not hanging on the side of my display, so I'm not really "focused on my own mortality".

karlmush 3y ago

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mrhether 3y ago

Warning! Don't click it's better that way, as an old man trust me.

deleted 3y ago
[deleted]

hckrzulu 3y ago

But.. age is just a number, right? also, the back button is broken.

mminer237 3y ago

> {{ 'HOME_TEXT_BIG' | translate }} I don't think it's supposed to do that.

Minor49er 3y ago
Give it a moment. It populated for me after several seconds

pizzafeelsright 3y ago

While I will not see my child reach my current age in this life I am excited for the world they will inhabit.

lukewrites 3y ago
I'll be up there, but should see my kids reach my current age. Hard for me to be optimistic about the world they'll inherit, though; I'm very concerned about the effects of climate change and the effects of things like diminishing ground water supply and ocean warming. Living in the US, I'm also concerned about their ability to afford healthcare if something catastrophic happens and the lack of meaningful social safety net. We may emigrate from the US to solve these problems. What do you think the world will be like in 40+ years that gives you hope?
- mchusma 3y ago
  Not OP but short answer: In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death), brain augmentation, AI/machines able to do many things for us, fusion/renewable-based energy abundance, and more. In almost every measurable way the world is better now than it was 20 years ago, and 20 years before that. This is likely to continue. Climate change is concerning, but totally addressable with technology. We absolutely can fix ground water, ocean warming, carbon ratios. It involves will, resources, and the technology to be thoughtful of how we impact the planet, instead of randomly doing it as side effects. There are some "trivial" fixes for many issues that can be implemented if we decide we want to (paint 1/4 the sahara white, solar shades in space, etc). They are not hard and if things get bad we will take them more seriously. Healthcare affordability is essentially a policy issue, but there is no reason in 40 years that healthcare can't be effectively free with AI/Robotics driving down the cost.
  - StevePerkins 3y ago
    > In 40 years, we are reasonably likely to have: functional immortality (cured natural death) This is laughable to the point where I suspect trolling/parody. Regardless, there should indeed be scientific advances ahead of us in the next 40 years. With the ongoing collapse in forward-looking fertility rates, there certainly better be.

carimura 3y ago

thanks for reminding me to close the laptop, hug my children, and go for a run.

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wonderwonder 3y ago

Very much makes me question sitting in front of a computer in a career I didn't like while my kids hang out in another room separate from me.

tomcar288 3y ago
go to the room next door and spend 30 min playing with them. no one can stop you but you. and you probably won't regret it.
- wonderwonder 3y ago
  I actually did. Said screw it and we made brownies :) in the oven now
luxurytent 3y ago
This "sitting in front of a computer" career gives me (and many others) the flexibility (and luxury in $$) to have a much nicer life than the majority of the population.
Brajeshwar 3y ago
If you work in timer-breaks (Pomodoro), that 5-min can always be around kids. I have been working (pretty much) remotely since 2005 when I started work with Disney. Here is one of the many parenting ideas that is fun https://brajeshwar.com/2022/the-quirky-productivity-tip-for-parents-with-kids/ https://brajeshwar.com/2022/the-quirky-productivity-tip-for-...

winrid 3y ago

> You are older than 100.0% of the world population > There are people younger and people older than you Wow, the more you know.

Jaxan 3y ago
I get the same…

gremlinsinc 3y ago

That's f'ing depressing. I'm 43, with 39 years left, and I don't feel old but apparently 56% of people are younger, so I'm no spring chicken, lol. It'll also be maybe a miracle if I see 2060.

zaat 3y ago
You can try migrating to a country with better life expectancy projection
wonderwonder 3y ago
I'm 44. Remember me

tomcar288 3y ago

for my projected lifespan, i don't think this thing is taking into account my blue zone diet, exercise or my intermittent fasting.

zaat 3y ago
Does inflicting self torture should be considered as time spent living?
- 2023throwawayy 3y ago
  Being healthy is self torture now? Seems more torturous to be obese. (Disclaimer: I am obese.)
- tomcar288 3y ago
  well with regards to exercise: I absolutely love gardening. It's not something I do "for excerise". as for eating healthy. It's all about finding some recipes you like: finding that over on the ven diagram between healthy eating and love to eat. of course if you grew up on a completely fast food diet you're body will be way too addicted. I suppose it's like asking a heroin addict to not do heroin everyday: that may feel like torture too.

standardUser 3y ago

I have this longstanding and pointless goal to live to see the American Tricentennial. According to this site I'll miss it by 10 years! It also just so happens that I'm right in the middle of my (projected) lifespan, which would certainly qualify me as middle-aged. But I refuse to identify as such because I feel Boomers turned it into such a negative phrase. Boomers just generally seemed to obsess over aging and retiring and dying in a way that I thankfully don't see among my Millenial and Gen X peers.

retrocryptid 3y ago

cool idea, but the implementation seems to not scale.

deleted 3y ago

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Willish42 3y ago

After dealing with a terminal illness in my family quite recently, I really have adopted the philosophy that sometimes, it's better not to know... I wonder what the practically immeasurable realized influence of contemplating one's life expectancy is on their actual life expectancy. I'm going to take a walk outside today and try to think less about dark things.

anonporridge 3y ago
It probably depends on whether the contemplation triggers you into healthier lifestyle behaviors or triggers you into depression and self destruction. I would hazard a guess that most people haven't developed their philosophy on life well enough to benefit from staring into the abyss. The catch-22 is that the only way to really get to that point is to spend some time wandering through the valley of the shadow of death. Personally, I think that sacrifice is worth it, because the only thing we are all obligated to do in life is die.

eadonmachine 3y ago

> What are the big milestones to expect in your life? > Your next milestone is 08 Aug 2030 when you’ll be the 5th billionth person to be alive in the world. I can't work out what they mean by this.

Frotag 3y ago
If you order everyone alive from youngest to oldest on that date, you'll be older than 5 billion people.
- eadonmachine 3y ago
  Oh! Thank you. They phrased that really badly. "You'll be the 5 billionth oldest person" would've been a lot clearer. Or 5 billionth youngest, whatever lol

Sohcahtoa82 3y ago

I'm almost exactly 50% towards my life expectancy. It's strange to think about. My perception of how long certain eras of my life were is...off. Grade school felt like an absolute eternity, yet I've been with my wife longer than I went to grade school, and yet these last 13 years haven't felt that long. I've done 41 years, and can expect to do another 42.7, based on that site. Those 41 years have felt like a damn long time, yet each year seems to go by faster than the previous, so the second half will feel shorter than the first half. On one hand, that means retirement feels closer, but on the other, it means retirement will feel shorter.

v7engine 3y ago

Feature Suggestion: The website could offer valuable insights on enhancing both life expectancy and quality of life. It could include practical tips, along with estimated increases in life expectancy for each suggestion.

runiq 3y ago

What does this do with the data I provide it with? Couldn't find a privacy policy or anything.

dcb_lu 3y ago

I sort of went deep on this line of thinking a while back and made a calendar of my life[0] along with a script that updates my desktop background every day. Folks tend to find it pretty morbid, but I quite like it in my own way. I got a fair few days left (theoretically, at least) but not an infinite amount. Gives a bit more weight to what would normally be a pretty boring Thursday -- I should make sure I come out of it with something new, however small. [0]: https://dcb.lu/memento-mori https://dcb.lu/memento-mori