Approximate Number of People Born Since Different Points in History and People Ever Born at Different Points in History [OC]

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18 comments

  1. Sources are the PBR article “How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?” and the United Nations report “World Fertility 2024.” The graphic was made mostly in Photopea, and line graphs were made in Excel.

  3. Almost every person that’s ever lived is dead so in a sense it’s more natural to be dead than alive. I just hope there’s a benevolent afterlife to make up for the fact that very few people have had truly good lives.

  4. so, 7.8 percent of all people ever born are alive today? A pretty interesting funfact IMHO

  6. The time scale on the first graph needs to be linear to be more intuitive 

  7. I would replace one of the graphs on the right side with a logarithmic scale or even double logarithmic scale.

  8. i think this representation is really cool, and I don’t think anything is wrong with the timescale, but it does make it hard to appreciate how spread out over time the other sections really are

  9. Remember 23% of those who could have lived were aborted — you’re seeing the surviving 77%

  11. omg, not related to the content, but I loved the Super Mario sprite for scale.

  12. I’m really confused why an infographic has a textual description of of how to interpret the visual; why not just draw it as a pyramid in orthographic perspective?

  13. Unrelated but the graphic looks like the cover of the album Tasmania by Pond

  14. I don’t like the square visualization–it’s not intuitive to compare the areas of each of the colors. But otherwise, cool!

  18. “Made that graph for you boss, real gay like you asked”

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