can anyone prove that there are more people alive today, than have ever died since then dawn of time?

Question

given that there are 6,401,78?,??? people now and only a handfull of hunter gatherers ( all the way back to Ardipithicus ramidus 5million years ago ).
tried to work it out but my head hurts!

check out "world population" and look at that counter go!!!

don't forget that life spans are increasing due to modern medicines.
people died a lot younger back then

Answer 1

I can't prove it, but I can set up the conditions under which it'd be proven true.

Assume that all people, once born, die.
Assume also that such a small number of people have lived past the age of 120 as to make that number insignificant, so that it can be used as an effective "endpoint" for human life.
Assume further that human population has increased in roughly an exponential fashion since the dawn of humanity.

Now, there's a problem as far as when you want to consider that the period began - the entrance of Ardipithicus Ramidus, or the development of Homo Erectus, or of Homo Sapiens Sapiens, or even of Adam and Eve. However, I think it can be reasonably assumed that human population never went past 20,000 individuals during any of those periods. As 20,000 represents 1/3200th of one percent, we can consider this within a margin of error. If we count it all the way back 5 million years, we run into a potential for a problem since 5 million years includes roughly 42,000 lifetimes of 120 years each. Assuming there were always 20,000 human beings during this time period, that means there were roughly 840 million individual human beings that lived (and consequently died) during this time period.

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Answer 2

I think that there are more people died than living now (6.6 billion).The human race is known for 10000 years and certainly more people have died.
If you take average life expectancy to be 40 years and total years 10000 then, you will have 250 generations and each generation should have a population of 26.4 million (6.6 billion/ 250) which is possible. The earth population any time would be around 26 million or more. Hence my estimate is that more people have died than living now.

Answer 3

I read once that the dead outnumber the living by a factor of 30. I'm not sure how far back into the past that estimate goes, but probably it went back at least to the earliest historial period, about 6000 years ago.

Answer 4

I doubt any one could ever prove that i think the registrar of births and deaths only started around 1500's and there has been alot of people before that.

Answer 5

no chance people have been around for a very long time there would never be a way to prove it. and i dont believe for a second that it is true.

Answer 6

Great question, come on people, give us proof. It seems totally unbeleivable

Answer 7

No.