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kijin on Aug 30, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: World's 7 billionth person about to be born

http://www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleHaveEverLivedo...

It is estimated that approximately 106 billion have lived on Earth between 8000 BC and 2002. (The population before 8000 BC is thought to have been too small to count on a scale of billions.)

So, it seems that 7% is about right.

ctdonath on Aug 30, 2011 [–]

Tangent to that: if one now lives 100 years, one's lifespan is 1% of recorded human history. That's not a lot of history.

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