Interesting...find out how many people were alive when you were born.

[dixiegrrrrl]

The world's population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks.
After growing very slowly for most of human history,
the number of people on Earth has more than doubled in the last 50 years.
Where do you fit into this story of human life?

Fill in your date of birth below to find out.

( for me, this is what it showed:)
When you were born, you were the 2,524,338,831stperson alive on Earth
75,657,341,066thperson to have lived since history began.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

[slackmaster]

1. 2.9ish billion

:argh:

[Martin Eden]

8. Same here; Sept 1957

World population has more than doubled since I was born.

[Motown_Johnny]

2. 3,200,556,530th and 76,998,053,534 for me

Shouldn't they be asking what time and what time zone too?


A little to exact for my taste so I fed in the day after my birth and came up with

3,200,718,713th

so there were 162,183 people born the same day as I was (if this is accurate)

with only 1,440 minutes in a day this could easily be made more accurate if they wanted to go the extra mile


Still fun though, thanks for the link.

[supernova]

3. 3.1 billion -

Funny, the world has more than doubled just in my lifetime so far.

When you were born, you were the:
3,155,307,344th
person alive on Earth
76,913,291,328th
person to have lived since history began

[Poll_Blind]

4. Useful post, thank you.

Very interesting little sidetrack there at the BBC.

PB

[NorthCarolina]

5. 2,840,372,991st

eom

[Douglas Carpenter]

6. cool

[ret5hd]

7. it said i was 7th and my mother was probably a monkey!

damn whippersnappers!

[Martin Eden]

9. Either that, or ....

... you are one of the "begat's" mentioned in the Bible :7

[Morning Dew]

25. And I bet when you were a child, that old guy next door -

I mean John McCain wanted you off his lawn.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. Interesting the curve was flat until 1750.

then increased in 1750,
then did a 50 year flat line, followed by another 50 year flat line, etc until 1900, when the flat lines only lasted 25 years between exponents.

So, what happened in 1750
and in 1880
etc?????
Besides the rule of exponents?

[haele]

11. Medical advancements. Forms of vaccinations started in the mid-late 1700's

1880's saw the rise in sanitation practices. Both of these helped to ensure more women and children survived long enough to procreate in greater numbers than before.

Haele

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. Also population recovery from the Black Death of the 1300's???

[haele]

26. Last major Western outbreak of Black Plague was in the 1660's.

A century before that. But there was a lot of immigration movement between those periods so some population explosion might have been hidden until the population settled.

Haele

[hfojvt]

17. I don't think that graph is accurate

they drew it flat because their graph is too small to show the difference between 1 billion and 1.3 billion and 1.5 billion.

Durand estimates that the population of Europe grew from 70-88 million in 1500 to 150-175 million in 1750, and the population of Asia grew from 225-380 million in 1500 to 439-545 million in 1750.

Then European population grew to about 430 million by 1900.

Thornton credits vaccination, but also the potato and corn, for driving the population increase. Food sources that Europe got from the Americas.

"Although Europeans reacted negatively to it at first, the potato proved an exceptional food, as it is high in nutrional value, easy to cultivate, and, grown underground, was generally safe from the ravages of war."

"As with the potato, it was the peasant who first became dependent upon maize as a food; he ate his maize and sold his wheat at a higher price (Braudel, 1979: 166). Although of lesser importance at the time than the potato in feeding expanding populations in Europe, maize undoubtably did foster some population growth there." Thornton, 1987 56-57

[justiceischeap]

12. Doesn't work for me. nt

[Lucinda]

15. edited

Worked for me in Safari too...I had the day and month data in the wrong spot.

[RebelOne]

13. I was the 2,265,104,116th person born in 1939. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Just under 5 billion people were not alive then.

Including me and the entire Baby Boomer cohort.
The world has indeed gotten smaller.

[alfredo]

14. 2.4 billion when I was born.

Keep it in your pants people!

[jwirr]

16. 2,327,848,669th. Interesting site.

[Blue_In_AK]

18. Interesting

Born in September 1946, and I am the 2,442,463,265th person. No wonder it feels so much more crowded now than it did when I was a child.

[Laluchacontinua]

19. Interesting numbers for the former USSR: Russia - .1%, moldova - 1.1%, romania - .3%,

serbia <.1%
hungary -.2%
bulgaria -.6%
latvia -.5%
belarus -.5%
estonia -.1%
lithuania -.5%
croatia - .2%
bosnia - .1%

etc.

the numbers aren't driven by immigration: in fact, russia has positive immigration. It's driven by deaths being higher than births.

It seems the demographic bust that followed the break-up of the USSR (driven by increased poverty/illness/social breakdown) has continued to the present.

[dixiegrrrrl]

21. I would also be a bit leery of the population figures in Africa.

Not sure how accurate they count, and a lot of genocides are way under-reported.

[trumad]

22. 2,885,675,014th

[tsuki]

23. 2,450,323,368th