Now FYI ..... Just for The Heck of it i contacted ...

Patricia V. Dickerson
Population Division
U. S. Bureau of the Census

And I do have the answer !

Ill Leave out the Number lets hear your POV on this and guesses

:pc:

 

I'm guessing about .25 percent...???

 

2%

can you pm us the numbers so we'll know?

 

id say 17 percent

 

I dare to guess LESS than .25%

 

I'd say 5.8% but I'm still trying to count and it's hard to count everyone as they keep moving around

George

 

it's 6 %

 

Ill let this go for a bit

 

Question-

I think that there are more dead people in the world right now than
there is living Im counting all dead egyptians and every thing.

am I right???

thanks chad

Reponce-

Dear Chad:

This is a fascinating question that has been asked many times and the
following table summarizes the range of results that have been obtained.
We have been working on a new set of estimates for some time, but it is a
time-consuming job. Based on Bourgeois-Pichat's estimates, the current
world population represents about 7 percent of those that were ever born.

Sincerely,
Patricia V. Dickerson
Population Division
U. S. Bureau of the Census
Telephone: (301) 763-6180
Fax: (301) 457-1539




Estimates of People Ever Born
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Corrected Original
people people
Time Starting Ending ever born ever born
Source points year year (billions) (billions)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Deevey, 1960 11 998,000 BC 1950 84 110
Desmond, et al., 1962 4 600,000 BC 1962 71 77
Keyfitz, 1966 5 1,000,000 BC 1960 69
Westing, 1981 7 298,000 BC 1980 46 50
People, 1985 ? 40,000 BC 1980 60
Bourgeois-Pichat, 1988 42 600,000 BC 1995 81
Haub, 1995 10 50,000 BC 1995 105
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note:
The published estimates by Deevey, Desmond, and Westing were corrected
for apparent computational errors.

Compiled by the International Programs Center, U.S. Bureau of the
Census.

Sources:
Bourgeois-Pichat, Jean, 1988, "Du XX au XXI siecle: l"Europe et sa
population apres l'an 2000," Population, Vol. 43, no. 1, Annexe.

Deevey, Jr., Edward, 1960, "The Human Population," Scientific American,
Vol. 203, No. 3, pp. 195-204.

Desmond, Annabelle, et al., 1962, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on
Earth?" Population Bulletin, February, Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 1-19.

Haub, Carl, 1995, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" Population
Today, February, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 4-5.

Keyfitz, Nathan, 1966, "How Many People Have Lived on the Earth?"
Demography, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 581-582.

People, 1985, "The living -- and the dead," (based on research by
A.T. Thatcher, Registrar General of the U.K.), Vol. 12, No. 2, p. 25.

Westing, Arthur H., 1981, "A Note on How Many Humans That Have Ever
Lived." BioScience, Vol. 31, No. 7, pp. 523-524.

Haub, Carl, 1995, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" Population
Today, February, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 4

 

Was the US Census Bureau already there counting people when Adam and Eve had kids?