Global human population represents just a small portion of everyone ever existing historically. Scientists analyze if more people are alive today than have passed before.
Frequent comparisons spark curiosity, highlighting intriguing urban myth about human numbers.
Experts reach into distant past, using statistical data from before eighteen hundreds. Lower life expectancy and limited medicine meant higher birth rates before modern times.
Population Reference Bureau’s research estimates nearly one hundred seventeen billion people existed. Currently, only eight billion live, meaning the deceased vastly outnumber the living.