As you know, the UN population division declared that this week today someone will be (was?) the 7th billion person on earth*. That's A LOT of people. There are some nice articles about what it means to be so many people on the planet and how we should react towards scarcity of resources. I like this one from the Economist.
So where do we fit in all this? The BBC has put up this webpage that helps you visualize it, with estimations. For example, I was born to be person number 4,720,327,430 on the planet (see chart below). Pretty cool, no?
Clicking next will take you to some cool stats about your country of origin**, then your gender (always kinda cool to see that we live more in expectation than men... even though that may mean that we are left alone sooner), and it wraps up with some (fill in the blank with adj) results. Mines were... well, didn't give me much hope. But probably if you are from other countries it will be, who knows :-). I let you discover it by yourself. I can only say that it took me the equivalent of the birth of 5,059 people to do the test and be writing this blog post. Freaking scary. Hey, Happy Halloween!
* For those who speak Spanish, let's remember that 7 billion is not equal to 7 billones; it is actually "7 thousand millions" or 7 mil millones.
** I found it rad that they included immigration as a stat, especially for a country where it matters so much.
So where do we fit in all this? The BBC has put up this webpage that helps you visualize it, with estimations. For example, I was born to be person number 4,720,327,430 on the planet (see chart below). Pretty cool, no?
Clicking next will take you to some cool stats about your country of origin**, then your gender (always kinda cool to see that we live more in expectation than men... even though that may mean that we are left alone sooner), and it wraps up with some (fill in the blank with adj) results. Mines were... well, didn't give me much hope. But probably if you are from other countries it will be, who knows :-). I let you discover it by yourself. I can only say that it took me the equivalent of the birth of 5,059 people to do the test and be writing this blog post. Freaking scary. Hey, Happy Halloween!
* For those who speak Spanish, let's remember that 7 billion is not equal to 7 billones; it is actually "7 thousand millions" or 7 mil millones.
** I found it rad that they included immigration as a stat, especially for a country where it matters so much.
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