Today the 8th Billionth person was born.
The population is due to peak at 10 Billion around 2084 then steadily decline due to a combination of food shortages and infertility.
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I remember it being 2 billion when I was a youngster.
8 Billion people and counting.
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8 Billion people and counting.
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Re: 8 Billion people and counting.
I do like the idea of not enough feet to go around. We could call it footfall.
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Re: 8 Billion people and counting.
Just done the calculations and apparently there's only about 130 million feet (or 40,000km) to go round the Earth (circumference), so frankly it's amazing that the population ever exceeded 70 million (on an assumed average of 1.9 feet per person).
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Re: 8 Billion people and counting.
I think they just picked a day for the 8 billionth person. I wouldn't vouch for its accuracy. Plus it's not really the 8 billionth person; it would be the person who brings the total of living people to 8 billion, and that could be more than one person anyway. See this thread.
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Re: 8 Billion people and counting.
I did think it was only an estimation at best.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:05 pm I think they just picked a day for the 8 billionth person. I wouldn't vouch for its accuracy. Plus it's not really the 8 billionth person; it would be the person who brings the total of living people to 8 billion, and that could be more than one person anyway. See this thread.
It could easily be a lot more already
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Re: 8 Billion people and counting.
They said themselves that it's an estimate, give or take a couple of years.Gavin Chipper wrote: ↑Tue Nov 15, 2022 1:05 pm I think they just picked a day for the 8 billionth person. I wouldn't vouch for its accuracy. Plus it's not really the 8 billionth person; it would be the person who brings the total of living people to 8 billion, and that could be more than one person anyway. See this thread.
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