2006-07-05 00:23:26 · 6 answers · asked by man in the jar 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
The dead outnumber the living, but by less than a magnitude, given the still exponential population growth. Main reason for this is child mortality - any life that is shorter than reproduction age will add to the number of dead without increasing population.
2006-07-05 01:43:28 · answer #1 · answered by jorganos 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Estimates available an various web sites look like this:
Number who have ever been born 106,456,367,669
World Population in mid-2002 6,215,000,000
Percent of those ever born who are living in 2002 5.8
There are estimates on the number of people who have ever lived between 80 and 150 billion.
2006-07-05 07:31:57 · answer #2 · answered by rt11guru 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The odds against the two numbers being the same are astronomical, so almost certainly one of those two numbers is greater than the other.
:-)
2006-07-05 21:34:09 · answer #3 · answered by ymail493 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
More people are alive today than have ever died.
2006-07-05 11:01:54 · answer #4 · answered by bequalming 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would guess that far more people have come and gone since the dawn of man than are alive today, but I have no proof. (Unless common sense and intuition count - which they don't).
2006-07-05 07:35:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
the dead outnumber the living easily
2006-07-05 07:28:48 · answer #6 · answered by Blind Wing 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋