7 Billion People and you...

[SiHart]

Apparently I'm the 4,077,454,600th person alive on Earth! How marvellous...

What's your number? Find out here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-15391515

[Dave Tudor]

And when I was born, just a few weeks later, I was the 4,081,402,155th person alive on Earth, making me the 78,446,691,852nd person to have lived since history began!

Nice to know your place in the grand scheme of things.

[Rob McCow]

That graph of the population explosion continues to be very scary.

[Dirk Gently]

When you were born, you were the:
3,789,191,987th person alive on Earth.
77,983,886,558th person to have lived since history began.

Way to make me feel old guys!.

[Philipnet]

When you were born, you were the 4,400,106,873rd person alive on Earth and the 78,959,341,715th person to have lived since history began.

[Philipnet]

What's next? The global population will continue to increase during your lifetime and beyond, reaching 10 billion by 2083. However, the rate of growth is expected to slow. Little of the current growth is happening in developed countries like yours


Longer lives: Working-age people like you will be supporting increasing numbers of older people during the next decades. By 2050, there will be just 2.2 people of working age supporting every person aged 65 or older in the developed world. In Europe, this will drop to just two.


Battle for resources: It is estimated that your group of the richest countries consumes double the resources used by the rest of the world. The UN estimates that if current population and consumption trends continue, by the 2030s we will need the equivalent of two Earths to support us.


Did you know? The average family size globally has declined by half since 1950 - from five children to the current 2.5.

466 people - the amount the population has grown while you've been on this site

[Dirk Gently]

466 people - the amount the population has grown while you've been on this site

Well you can help stop the population rise by not going on that site then, Phil!

[WhiteCrowNZ]

It is very scarey how the world's population continues to explode.

By the end of the 20th Century, the world seemed to come together a bit to really make a dint in the war, plague, famine which usually keeps the population slightly contained. That should be a good thing right?

You hear about China limiting people to one child, and it seems a good idea. Then you hear how brutal that makes their society, and it's awful.

This theme has been explored a bit in sci-fi. Isaac Asimov in several stories talked about a human population which was massive, and a very small if any animal species. This led to everyone living in small units, off recycled food and air and with a poor quality of life.

Population explosion kind of happened back in the industrial revolution when more labourers were required for industry. Now we have a society with more automation which needs less people than ever before - are we moving to a society where people become effectively redundant except as consumers?

[Alex Me]

When you were born, you were the: 4,821,633,381st person alive on Earth
79,622,822,464th person to have lived since history began.

Not too sure I am convinced of the accuracy of this, It only asks for your date of birth, not the time. Surely I can't have been the only person born that day :/

[Anthony Williams]

When I was born, I was the 5,069,275,241st person alive on Earth and 80,011,083,882nd person to have lived since history began.

Do I make you feel old?

[wombatskidude]

Since I was born, the population of the planet has almost doubled.

There is no causal link between these two events. Honest.