Post #2935709
2022-11-13 09:42 UTC
@Sheril@mastodon.social Alt text: Image of hourglass:
Each grain of sand in this visualization
represents 10 million people.
[Top of hourglass] 140 million children are born every year. 14 grains of sand enter the hourglass.
You are here. These 795 grains represent the 7.95 billion people who are alive today.
[Bottom of hourglass] 60 million people die every year. 6 grains of sand pass through the hourglass.
About 109 billion people have lived and died. 10.900 grains of sand.
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@aral@mastodon.ar.al 2022-11-13 09:45
@Sheril@mastodon.social (Alt text, cont.) [Bottom of hourglass] About half the people who ever lived lived in the last 2000 years. - [Arrow, about half-way to the bottom] Socrates, who was killed in 399 BCE. lies about here. - [Arrow, about one third from the bottom] Half of the dead bodies here - [Arrow, almost at the bottom] The first agriculturalists lie here. Only about 9 billion people lived before the Agricultural Revolution. 2/2