i read somewhere that their are more poeple alive today than have ever died. Do you believe that?

Answer 1

this is completely false. people have been on the earth for thousands of years. right now there is about 6 billion people in the world. just think of it as 100 years ago probably 5 billion and 200 years ago 4 billion. now most of those people have died and that is over 6 billion so no, your data is incorrect.

Answer 2

It could be possible. With the advent of modern medicines far more people that in our entire history are surviving to produce the next generation. I've read that the Black Death killed around half of Europes population in the middle ages and including the Middle East, India and China killed at least 75 million.
If that is to be believed and assuming it killed a similar proportion in the latter regions as the former that would put the population of Europe, the Middle East, India and China at about 150 million. Include other diseases like polio, diphtheria, smallpox and many many others which we seldom hear of now, I can well believe that the population of the human race has been kept fairly small until quite recent times by diseases.
Oh, and I forgot Tuberculosis which was also prevalent until post 2nd World War. The widespread use of antibiotics saw it's demise, but some strains are now becoming resistant and I suppose we can expect it's widespread reappearance. It still kills large numbers in the Indian sub-continent I believe.

Answer 3

I find that a bit of a stretch. Ever is a long time, and a lot of people have come and gone. I did have an economics professor tell me, about 4 years ago, that the entire population of the world could be accommodated comfortably in a single housing project the size of Texas.

Answer 4

I Actually believed the urban myth that 75% of those born were still alive in the later half of the 20th century. But I think the argument is reasonable presented elsewhere.
Where Haub estimates this to be 5.8%, lets call it one twentieth.
Bash the source in a search engine and you can see all his maths. Quite fun to read.

Answer 5

this is complicated to declare with fact. some will estimate the respond to be a undeniable, others a no. It does look that the international is a approaches over taxed with connection with components and detrimental impression on the ecosystem that inhabitants may well be almost as many as all people who've ever lived. on the comparable time, it form of feels a approaches fetched to make that end. according to hazard greater important in the present day is the assumption of international warming, living eco-friendly, and attempting to diminish our impression on the ecosystem. a minimum of to a existence like quantity.

Answer 6

No I dont believe that at all.try and find out how many people in this world and work out how many have died in past (even 2006 years and add another 8000 years )were good at medicine but hell we are not that good .

Answer 7

possibly. and the fact that every year a new life in the shape of a baby, no make that babies, are born into this world and he/she go through the years of developement and ageing. and so i too believe that there are more people existing on this planet today than those who have died.

Answer 8

it is true. There has been an exponential rise in population in the last 100 hundred years and this population increase outweighs the number of people that existed in the past.....

Answer 9

Well whether I believed it or now would depend on the source from which it was read and also a little investigating.

Answer 10

yeah I can believe it.
Nothing surprises me anymore with this world
pigs will be flying next!