The visualization is strange for this because the hour glass implies that the is a finite number of humans that can live but at the same time it is refilled from the top continously.
What happens in a billion years will it overflow?
Am I the only one with this problem?
Then God will turn it over and it starts going backwards. All the dead people will be born again in reverse order, it's gonna be real weird.
Phew, luckily religion has all the answers.
Currently our world wide birthrate is trending towards an average of 1.9-2.1 children per woman, which is basically just enough to maintain a stable population. The main reason we exploded in population in the last couple centuries is that our kids stopped dying so frequently, so as people notice that they no longer need to have 15 kids so that 3 of them make it to puberty, they stop having huge families.
What happens in a billion years will it overflow?
They’ll just draw it bigger.
We’ll just add a zero to each of the population counts.
“Each grain of sand represents 100 million people …”
Maybe we die out because we failed to take care of the planet.
More like because we failed to take care of ourselves, by taking care of the biosphere we relied on to stay alive.
You are here
dang, how does it know, that's crazy
They track your phone idiot
How?
Vaccinations
I leave my devices unvaccinated, thanks
I always wanted to see this visualized.
Where is Saddam?
Something like 5th uppermost row in the lower part.
Flipping it right now
About half of people that have ever lived have died
Technically if estimates are accurate we are all a four-point-something billion old unbroken chain of reproduction.
What is considered Human here? Homo Sapiens Sapiens?
Anyway, cool graph
And Neanderthals
That's a good visual
Huh. Didn't think there'd been that many of us already. Neat.