The Wikipedia page links to this [0] article as a source, where the table states an estimated 9 billion “ever lived” at the 8000 BCE mark, and 55 billion at the

The Wikipedia page links to this [0] article as a source, where the table states an estimated 9 billion “ever lived” at the 8000 BCE mark, and 55 billion at the 1 CE mark. The end of prehistory isn’t too well defined, but it’s usually taken to be around 5000 BCE (if not later). So while it’s not very precise of course, from those estimates it certainly looks like more humans lived in prehistory than now, by a few billion at least. Given that the world population is predicted to peak at about 10.5 billion roughly 60 years from now, it also looks like this won’t change anytime soon. [0] https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived-on-earth/ https://www.prb.org/articles/how-many-people-have-ever-lived...