There Are Almost 7 Billion People – Which Number Are You?

No one likes to be treated as a number, but let’s throw that convention out the window for a moment (just be sure to clean it up off the street later) to take a look at a simple but interesting tool that BBC launched on its website to celebrate the 7 billionth person on earth, which will occur in the coming weeks.

What number were you when you were born? It’s of course impossible to come up with something exact, but with this tool, you can put in your birth-date and get a rough estimate. Born on January 1, 1980? Then you were around the 4,413,966,724th person at that time – or as I like to put it, you are roughly 2.6 billion people old.

The site also says that there have been approximately 78,980,864,191 people who have lived in human history – a number that completely boggles my mind. That’s essentially our current population multiplied by 11x! There’s been a lot of people to roam this earth before us, that’s for certain.

The BBC tool doesn’t end there, though. On the following pages you will be able to get an up-to-date report on the population in your country, see how many births and deaths there are per hour there, the average annual growth, and best of all… your expected life expectancy. Fun stuff.