What % of all people that ever existed used food foraging?

Question

What % of all people that ever existed used food foraging as their subsistence strategy? Would it be 90%, 75%, 50%, 30%, or 10%. Thanks!

Answer 1

The most recent population demographic studies indicate that at least 120 billion H.sapiens have lived within the past 200,000 years...

Out of those, most of those were Blood Type "O" (Hunter/Gatherers), until the advent of farming (Within the last 10,000 years), when the human Blood Type mutated 3 times...1st to "A", then "B", and finally to "AB"...

Still, at the present time, 46% of the world's population is Blood Type "O", however, food foraging has declined in the last 10,000 years (Not including hunting)...

The first time the human population reached 1 Billion, was 1803, and appx. 10% of the total amount of humans have lived in the 19th, 20th and 21st Centuries...

Since 90% lived before the 19th Century, dating back to 200,000 years ago, and not everyone has lived in Industrialized societies, I think it would be a safe guess to say, that close to 50% of all H.sapiens used some amount of foraging (and hunting), as a means of suubsistence survival...

Answer 2

who knows of all people, but hunter/gathers were around for millions years before agriculture.

Answer 3

Wow that's a tough one.  Although for millions of years mankind used foraging and hunting to survive, there were also relatively very few people on the earth at a time during that period.  Now scant few use this method, and there are over six billion humans humming around most of whom don't even farm much less forage.  I'd have to say the billions of modern people outnumber the millions of years of low numbers of people, so I'll go with 10%

Answer 4

100%...I've seen what goes on around the fridge!