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How Many People Have Ever Lived On Earth?

Dale Mussen — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:00:16 +0000

Earth’s population is approaching 7-billion people. And even though some countries are experiencing negative population growth, the population is many third world countries is exploding. But how many people have there been since humans first appeared on earth? Tough question because we can only come up with an estimate of how many people ever existed [...]

There Will Soon Be More Cell Phones Than People in the World

Shauna Wright — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:00:34 +0000

Cisco’s annual Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast makes some interesting (some may say frightening) predictions, including the fact that the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the world’s population sometime this year. The study, which looked at worldwide mobile networks, also found mobile data traffic went up 133 percent in 2011 and will likely grow [...]

Population Explosion in China – Dale's Daily Data

Dale Mussen — Fri, 20 May 2011 10:00:05 +0000

I came across an interesting statement. If the population of China walked past you, in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. Kinda scary, huh?

With more than 1.32 billion people – China has the largest population in the world. China reached the 1 billion mark in 1982 and in less than 30 years they added population equal to that of the United States. Matter of fact there are more than twice as many people in China than in the United States and Europe combined.