You are the nth person alive on earth

The world population has DOUBLED in my lifetime. That is a fact that I hadn't realised nor ever wanted to realise.

If your birthdate is 11/11/1967, then half the world is older than you and half the world is younger.

India here [1]. A couple of interesting things:<p>1. That's a lot of births, and a lot of deaths :-O<p>2. 68 people leave the country every hour?! Woah, that's some serious brain drain going on there. (assuming a net outflow against 'immigrants' would primarily be natives of the country)<p>[1] <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Mv3zl.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Mv3zl.png</a>

I wish it had links to the GapMinder graphs for your country tagged with your years. <a href="http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gapminder.org/videos/what-stops-population-growth...</a>

Once I have the time I should calculate the number of people who grew up to be older than 15 during the history times -- most of the births must have been of those who didn't grew up.

What an amazingly effective demographic gathering tool the BBC has created :)

I was very impressed with this until I realised that everyone with my birthday will get the same result as me so the count is not accurate with out a specific time of birth. Just saying.Great idea all the same.

Nothing but a clever way to collect some aggregate data on their readers. :)&#60;/tinfoilhat&#62;

Ok, so I'm Bulgarian, male. Life expectancy 69 years - 10+ years less than the average for the western world. Poor me...

I spotted this earlier today. Interestingly it get's my age wrong at the end despite putting in my full date of birth in the beginning. The output is one year above my actual age. I have a December birthday and I can only assume it simply counts the years and assumes you had your birthday before October.

This whole concept is really fuzzy for two reasons.<p>first, there's no dividing line between us and our human-like ancestors.<p>second, this depends on the precise moment life begins. Quite a few people claim to believe that human life begins at conception - if that's the case, in order to be consistent, they should count life starting from conception, which would at least double the total historical human population (due to natural miscarriages, not just abortions).

If you're more than 101 years old it won't let you play

Hmm, says I'm the 77 billionth (and change) human who ever lived. More than I would have guessed.

Most of the developed world has now got a lower than replacement birth rate (except, typically, the US):<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility</a><p>Can't we extrapolate and say that in a few decades that's going to happen to the developing world too?<p>In other words, that graph is nonsense?

I can't get the "Go" button to do anything in Chrome :(

Can you imagine Fox News building something like this? I'll always be proud of the BBC.

03/10/1959

dont forget to count the fallen..