Begle1

I've read that and heard it from a few places, most notably while studying degrees of seperation and population increases. I've always heard that that was true. Construct a negative exponential function, and you'll see how its possible. It's not as far fetched as it sounds.

westcoaster

....... and then there were 2,391,399 americans that died in 1999, 2,337,256 in 1998, 2,314,245 in 1997..... that was americans alone the russian statistics are similar. India and china aren't listed. if a guy was energetic he could go through all the countries listed figure out what the annual death toll was and start multiplying by years.

edit...
http://www3.who.int/whosis/mort/tabl...nguage=english

BoldtsWagon

Here someone took a stab at calculating it (according to his assumptions and calculations, you lost):

http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives...2021.Ev.r.html

Dixe_Diesel

Ok what about the cenus?

I'm like westcoaster, I believe you could find that probably half of the worlds population (3 billion) have died in the United states in last 100 years.

westcoaster

I'm not sure about the united states, I would think india and china's annual death count would leave the US looking like chump change (MASSIVE populations and very crude health care)

edit:
population of India as at 0:00 hours on 1st March 2001 stood at 1,027,015,247 persons.

mainland China's population totaled 1.266 billion last year (what year I didn't stick around to find out...)

the resident population of the United States, projected to 10/11/2004 at 11:34:50 PM EDT is
294,494,944

westcoaster

errm... other way this guy calculated 40 billion who ever lived....

upersleder

see i knew we were right

dieselminded

Man you guy are trying like h*ll to answer this

I thought the thread would just get tossed to the bottom

@ first I thought it was a no brainer but maybe its a bit closer than I thought .

Ive been to the links and we are getting there not sure witch one Ill go with .....Ive searched the net but its kind of limited I did e-mail the link metioned earier no responce yet

Im sure they are hitting up the net with there answer to win but I have a whole forum to help me

Thanks All

Maybe I sould of made this a poll

I still think Im right I tried to reason by thinking of it like this............

maybe 500,000 indians came and went so thats about OHIO now .........I figger.
Then on and on till the dead out # the living,but I need to get the cences and add everything up Im not sure thats worth $20 to me but they cant prove me wrong either I was wanting an easy fix Im right there wrong end of story type of thing



DM

dieselminded

Note I never said that theres not more people alive today then there ever been I think thats right,,,, I stated the amont of dead out # the living


Its a diffrent stupid question


DM

chaikwa

dieselminded wrote:
I said that there are more dead people in the world right now than there is living

Are dead people really still in this world?

chaikwa.

TomW

Only the ones we planted.

bdramsey

dieselminded

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TPilaske YOU ARE THE MAN !!!!!!!!!!

I WIN
I WIN
I WIN

As if I ever doubted my self

I just got a responce and BAM.......


Question-

I think that there are more dead people in the world right now than
there is living Im counting all dead egyptians and every thing.

am I right???

thanks chad

Reponce-

Dear Chad:

This is a fascinating question that has been asked many times and the
following table summarizes the range of results that have been obtained.
We have been working on a new set of estimates for some time, but it is a
time-consuming job. Based on Bourgeois-Pichat's estimates, the current
world population represents about 7 percent of those that were ever born.

Sincerely,
Patricia V. Dickerson
Population Division
U. S. Bureau of the Census
Telephone: (301) 763-6180
Fax: (301) 457-1539




Estimates of People Ever Born
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Corrected Original
people people
Time Starting Ending ever born ever born
Source points year year (billions) (billions)
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Deevey, 1960 11 998,000 BC 1950 84 110
Desmond, et al., 1962 4 600,000 BC 1962 71 77
Keyfitz, 1966 5 1,000,000 BC 1960 69
Westing, 1981 7 298,000 BC 1980 46 50
People, 1985 ? 40,000 BC 1980 60
Bourgeois-Pichat, 1988 42 600,000 BC 1995 81
Haub, 1995 10 50,000 BC 1995 105
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note:
The published estimates by Deevey, Desmond, and Westing were corrected
for apparent computational errors.

Compiled by the International Programs Center, U.S. Bureau of the
Census.

Sources:
Bourgeois-Pichat, Jean, 1988, "Du XX au XXI siecle: l"Europe et sa
population apres l'an 2000," Population, Vol. 43, no. 1, Annexe.

Deevey, Jr., Edward, 1960, "The Human Population," Scientific American,
Vol. 203, No. 3, pp. 195-204.

Desmond, Annabelle, et al., 1962, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on
Earth?" Population Bulletin, February, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-19.

Haub, Carl, 1995, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" Population
Today, February, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 4-5.

Keyfitz, Nathan, 1966, "How Many People Have Lived on the Earth?"
Demography, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 581-582.

People, 1985, "The living -- and the dead," (based on research by
A.T. Thatcher, Registrar General of the U.K.), Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 25.

Westing, Arthur H., 1981, "A Note on How Many Humans That Have Ever
Lived." BioScience, Vol. 31, No. 7, pp. 523-524.

Haub, Carl, 1995, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" Population
Today, February, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 4

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acceptence speech -


ONLY 7 percent man they are way off I should of bet $100 that the #'s were 10 to 1

This is a great site for all questions thanks all

$20 to spend on the CTD for if it wasnt for her none of this would of been possible and I also would like to thank GOD for creating all those people



DM

Fat Framer

Boy, that will get you about 8 gals of fuel

dieselminded

Im thinkin maybe Ill open up a savings account for the truck .