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Is this article meant to be sarcastic? The world population has quite literally doubled since 1968 when there were 3.5B people worldwide. Yes, the population ha

Is this article meant to be sarcastic? The world population has quite literally doubled since 1968 when there were 3.5B people worldwide. Yes, the population has doubled since most of your parents were born.

JoeAltmaier 11y ago
Which implies an interesting statistic: the majority of people who ever lived, are still alive.
- eCa 11y ago
  I don't think it does. The Population Reference Bureau estimates that a total of 107 billion Homo Sapiens have lived (since 50,000 BC) [1]. [1] http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleH...
- dagw 11y ago
  Doesn't work like that: http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedonEarth.aspx http://www.prb.org/Publications/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleH...
  - JoeAltmaier 11y ago
    That's interesting. An optimistic guesstimate assuming uniform growth from 50KBC. But humans have been boom and bust since then, with things like ice ages putting a monkey wrench in the works. I'm thinking it could have busted to 10M repeatedly through history.
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