How Many Souls Have Ever Lived?
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Historical Estimates of World Population shows the world population as single-digit millions before 3000 BC.
Given that the world is currently approaching 5-digit millions, I suspect it doesn't make much significant difference even if a thousand generations before Adam were included.
How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? | PRB contains this table:
| YEAR | POPULATION | BIRTHS/1000 | BIRTHS BETWEEN | NUMBER EVER BORN | PERCENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 190,000 B.C.E | 2 | 80 | – | – | – |
| 50,000 B.C.E. | 2,000,000 | 80 | 7,856,100,000 | 7,856,100,002 | 0 |
| 8000 B.C.E. | 5,000,000 | 80 | 1,137,789,769 | 8,993,889,771 | 0.1 |
| 1 C.E. | 300,000,000 | 80 | 46,025,332,354 | 55,019,222,125 | 0.5 |
| 1200 | 450,000,000 | 60 | 26,591,343,000 | 81,610,565,125 | 0.6 |
| 1650 | 500,000,000 | 60 | 12,782,002,453 | 94,392,567,578 | 0.5 |
| 1750 | 795,000,000 | 50 | 3,171,931,513 | 97,564,499,091 | 0.8 |
| 1850 | 1,265,000,000 | 40 | 4,046,240,009 | 101,610,739,100 | 1.2 |
| 1900 | 1,656,000,000 | 40 | 2,900,237,856 | 104,510,976,956 | 1.6 |
| 1950 | 2,499,000,000 | 31-38 | 3,390,198,215 | 107,901,175,171 | 2.3 |
| 2000 | 6,149,000,000 | 22 | 6,064,994,884 | 113,966,170,055 | 5.4 |
| 2010 | 6,986,000,000 | 20 | 1,364,003,405 | 115,330,173,460 | 6.1 |
| 2022 | 7,963,500,000 | 17 | 1,690,275,115 | 117,020,448,575 | 6.8 |
| 2035 | 8,899,000,000 | 16 | 1,758,578,889 | 118,779,027,464 | 7.5 |
| 2050 | 9,752,000,000 | 14 | 2,068,409,608 | 120,847,437,072 | 8.1 |
and estimates the current total to be a little over 117,000,000,000, with about 7% of everyone that has ever lived being alive today.
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