With this context and timeframe in mind, the demographers estimate that 109 billion people have lived and died over the course of 192,000 years. If we add the number of people alive today, we get 117 billion humans that have ever lived.
Here's what I've got: Roughly 100,825,272,791 people have ever died. Let's call it 100.8 billion if you're struggling to read a number that long. That figure comes with help from Carl Haub, a senior demographer at the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit organization that studies population trends.
No demographic data exist for more than 99% of the span of human existence. Still, with some assumptions about population size throughout human history, we can get a rough idea of this number: About 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth.
Assuming a constant growth rate and birth rates of 80 per 1000 through 1 A.D., 60 per 1000 from 2 A.D. to 1750, and the low 30s per 1000 by modern times, 105 billion people have lived on earth, of whom 5.5% are alive today.
Not even close. It is estimated that in 50,000 years of human history, more than 100 billion (in the American sense of billion as a thousand million) human beings have been born. Most estimates run somewhat higher. There are fewer than 6.4 billion alive today.
Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct in 7,800,000 years, according to J. Richard Gott's formulation of the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that we have probably already lived through half the duration of human history.
Today, oxygen makes up roughly 21 per cent of our air, but it was virtually non-existent in Earth's early atmosphere. Soon after the advent of photosynthesis 2.4 billion years ago, oxygen levels crept up to 1 or 2 per cent – if you were to breathe this air, you would die almost immediately.
The current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.6 billion in 2030, 9.8 billion in 2050 and 11.2 billion in 2100, according to a new United Nations report being launched today.
Historic growth of world population
500 years BCE it was 100 million, and in the year 0 around 200 million people were estimated to live on Earth. After the Great Famine of 1315–17 and the Black Death in 1350, the world population was around 370 million people and around 1800 it reached 1 billion.
Scientists still don't know exactly when or how the first humans evolved, but they've identified a few of the oldest ones. One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,” who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.
Earth's capacity
Many scientists think Earth has a maximum carrying capacity of 9 billion to 10 billion people. [ How Do You Count 7 Billion People?]
The first human ancestors appeared between five million and seven million years ago, probably when some apelike creatures in Africa began to walk habitually on two legs. They were flaking crude stone tools by 2.5 million years ago. Then some of them spread from Africa into Asia and Europe after two million years ago.
Apply the same concept to the whole of human history then - that we're not witnessing humanity at its birth nor its death right at this moment - and while results do vary, we can say that our species will die out at some point between 5,100 years and 7.8 million years in the future.
Humans (Homo sapiens)
It's a cliche, but (aside from mosquitos) the most deadly animal is ourselves! Homicides account for an estimated 431,000 human deaths a year, making us by far the deadliest mammals.
There were 67.1 million deaths in 2022. The world population, therefore, increased by 65.81 million in 2022(that is a net increase of 0.84%). The second chart shows the annual number of deaths by world region from 1950 to 2021.
The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history.
The UN estimated that the world population reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It was another 123 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960.
World population milestones by the billions
This is when the United Nations estimates that the world's population reached each billion milestone: one billion in 1804; two billion in 1927 (123 years later); three billion in 1960 (33 years later);
About 100,000 years ago, we began migrating across the globe. During this period, the human population remained low – probably less than 1 million people.
Extending the UN's probabilistic population models, the paper, published in the International Journal of Forecasting, found that our population size in 2300 will likely be between 2 and 26 billion people, with a median projection of 7.5 billion.
The world's population is expected to increase by nearly 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from the current 8 billion to 9.7 billion in 2050 and could peak at nearly 10.4 billion in the mid-2080s.
Remarkably, life on Earth only has a billion or so years left. There is some uncertainty in the calculations, but recent results suggest 1.5 billion years until the end. That is a much shorter span of time than the five billion years until the planet is engulfed by the Sun.
In Earth's Beginning
At its beginning, Earth was unrecognizable from its modern form. At first, it was extremely hot, to the point that the planet likely consisted almost entirely of molten magma. Over the course of a few hundred million years, the planet began to cool and oceans of liquid water formed.
Earth will not be able to support and sustain life forever. Our oxygen-rich atmosphere may only last another billion years, according to a new study in Nature Geoscience. As our Sun ages, it is becoming more luminous, meaning that in the future Earth will receive more solar energy.