this post was submitted on 23 Jun 2024
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Damn, that's interesting!

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[–] LittleBorat2@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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?

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] debil@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Phew, luckily religion has all the answers.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What happens in a billion years will it overflow?

They’ll just draw it bigger.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

We’ll just add a zero to each of the population counts.

“Each grain of sand represents 100 million people …”

[–] Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe we die out because we failed to take care of the planet.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

More like because we failed to take care of ourselves, by taking care of the biosphere we relied on to stay alive.

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[–] ramirezmike@programming.dev 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are here

dang, how does it know, that's crazy

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They track your phone idiot

[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SurpriZe@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

I leave my devices unvaccinated, thanks

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Something like 5th uppermost row in the lower part.

[–] ThisIsNecessary@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I always wanted to see this visualized.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Flipping it right now

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

About half of people that have ever lived have died

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting visual, crossposting this to !dataisbeautiful@mander.xyz

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Technically if estimates are accurate we are all a four-point-something billion old unbroken chain of reproduction.

[–] joneskind@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What is considered Human here? Homo Sapiens Sapiens?

Anyway, cool graph

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

And Neanderthals

[–] LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's a good visual

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago

Huh. Didn't think there'd been that many of us already. Neat.

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