Simple question(I think)

pat kenny

How many people die everyday in the world?

A guy in the pub said it was about 40 million but it think thats a fantastical fiqure it has to be much lower.

NeVeR

I really dout it's that many, but i cant say he is lying or not.

but ppl die from 100's of different things every day in ireland,, Like old age/sickness/Murder/car crashs/ etc


I tired to do a search and see if anyone has came up with a number but i found nothing,

but the guy that says 40 million die's a day was he drunk ? lol
thats 280 million a week and 1,456,000,000 a year ? umm is that right? nealy a billionand a half people die a year?

Panda

i remember hearing that a child is born every two or three seconds.

this was more of a gag though.

the punchline being,
someone should find that slut and stop her!

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Total Deaths During the 20th Century

check it out!

late 1990's approx 260+million people dead every year!

Gordon

According to this website 12,500 people are born each hour so therefore a little less die each hour.

Math starteth:
12500 per hour = 109,200,000 born per year!

Repli

More people are definetly born than those who die..
this is pretty cool :
http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw
The worlds population increases by about 6 million~ each month

Victor

My guess would be 200,000 to 400,000 per day, and likely to be at the lower end of that. I think your "friend" is merely demonstrating the inability of many people to handle large numbers (see the Indo for numerous examples of this).

About 16,000,000 have their birthdays on any particular day, but this would have seasonal variations.

Dustaz

I heard once that there are more people alive today than have been alive at all other times put together. Actually i heard this a few times, but could never bring myself to believe it.

Anyone wanna clarify if this is "Fat bloke down the pub told me" territory?

Victor

It's not far off. I suspect the problem with that tyoe of maths is it assumes modern demographic patterns, whereas over the last 2 million years (where does one start) there have been many ups and downs in world population. Based on the "pub" assumption of the population of the population increasing 50% every 20 years, Adam & Eve lived around 920 AD. In reality from 500 AD to 1500 AD the world's population is believed to haev remained relatively stable in the 300m to 700m bracket, rising and falling several time (the Plague and all that).

Year	Population
2000	 6,000,000,000 
1980	 4,000,000,000 
1960	 2,666,666,667 
1940	 1,777,777,778 
1920	 1,185,185,185 
1900	 790,123,457 
1880	 526,748,971 
1860	 351,165,981 
1840	 234,110,654 
1820	 156,073,769 
1800	 104,049,179 
1780	 69,366,120 
1760	 46,244,080 
1740	 30,829,387 
1720	 20,552,924 
1700	 13,701,950 
1680	 9,134,633 
1660	 6,089,755 
1640	 4,059,837 
1620	 2,706,558 
1600	 1,804,372 
1580	 1,202,915 
1560	 801,943 
1540	 534,629 
1520	 356,419 
1500	 237,613 
1480	 158,409 
1460	 105,606 
1440	 70,404 
1420	 46,936 
1400	 31,291 
1380	 20,860 
1360	 13,907 
1340	 9,271 
1320	 6,181 
1300	 4,121 
1280	 2,747 
1260	 1,831 
1240	 1,221 
1220	 814 
1200	 543 
1180	 362 
1160	 241 
1140	 161 
1120	 107 
1100	 71 
1080	 48 
1060	 32 
1040	 21 
1020	 14 
1000	 9 
980	 6 
960	 4 
940	 3 
920	 2

The Gopher

If i may add my 2 cents
If 1.5 billion people died every year we would all be dead in four years.And that is if we are to assume that figure suddenly started today.So if it didnt god knows what life expectancy would be.
Victor-I am a little confused by those figures you quoted when compared to you saying there were hundreds of millions of people around by 900AD.I dont think the world had only 2 million people in 920 AD.This is because I remember seeing that Tenochitchilan(sp?),the city where Mexico City now stands,had something like 250,000 people around the time.I doubt that over 10% of the worlds population lived in one city.And places like Athens,Rome,Jerusalem,etc would all have probably had similiar populations,seeing as they were sort of the centre of civilisation at the time.

sceptre

Originally posted by The Gopher
Victor-I am a little confused by those figures you quoted when compared to you saying there were hundreds of millions of people around by 900AD.I dont think the world had only 2 million people in 920 AD.

Victor's using those figures to prove that the world's population hasn't always been increasing by 50% every 20 years. His figures "prove" that there were only 2 (not 2 million) people living in 920AD. hence he makes his point (and well at that).

World's population has really only exploded in the last 150-odd years. Before that it was increasing at a very slow rate. We've added a billion people in the last 15 years.

(edit)
Useful links
http://blue.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/popclockw
makes estimates of world population - they add about 6 million people per month so that's obviously the figure for births less deaths.
They also make a daily bitths estimate which for 2002 is 352,268 per day (info here) (main page here)

http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop
lets you get info on what the world population was on a date of your choosing.