Which is greater?

Question

the number of people who have lived and died since the beginning of man

or

the number of people alive in the world right now

Answer 1

the number of people who have lived and died, by far

Answer 2

Hmm..I would have said the opposite of everyone else.

Answer 3

Well, in my opinion both of them are great but each for a specifically different reason.

The first one because they prepared the land by giving us ideas  of how we can use it. So, they are a good example of how we can use the special gift of life.

Now, the second one are great because they have the opportunity to continue this work with the dream and aim to give a better world to their descendant.

So, numbers are not so important.

Answer 4

the number of people that will be happy in the future.

Answer 5

The current world population of humans is about 6.82 billion and increasing.

There are problems in determining the total number of people who have lived because most of the years before 1000 AD have no written records.  There is no doubt that everyone born before 1850 is dead.  Most born before 1900 are dead as well.

Considering the prevalence of infant mortality and the number of women who died in childbirth prior to 1900, it is safe to say that the total numbers of humans who have lived and died exceeds 120 billion and could run as high as 200 billion.  This does not include stillbirths.

Answer 6

Well remember that humans, depending on how you define human, have been around for about 3,000,000 years.

That's a LONG time... even if there weren't very many of us for most of that time  period.  And people used to have children a lot younger, and not live as long as they do now....so you have something like 12,000 generations of ancestors.

So I would have to go with the former.

Answer 7

Appx. 120 billion people have lived and died in the past 120,000 years of Homo sapiens existence!

Right now, there are 6.6 billion humans alive on earth...

I'll let you do the math... ;-)

Answer 8

the former

Answer 9

the first one for sure