People on earth

[Dom Tuk]

Anyone closer to finding an answer to the age old conundrum...Which is the greater number, the people alive on this planet today or the sum of all of whom who have died on this planet. I recall it was a question asked of Yudhistra, a king in the Indian epic Mahabharat and was revisited a few years ago by a mathematician. what was the result of his/her study.

[Cloned]

http://www.prb.org/Content/ContentGroups/PTarticle/0ct-Dec02/How_Many_People_Have_Ever_Lived_on_Earth_.htm

is a good website with interesting facts. It is all a rough estimate and the figures are a bit old as well, but hope it helps you.

Number who have ever been born            106,456,367,669

World population in mid-2002                        6,215,000,000

Percent of those ever born who are living in 2002       5.8

[Cloned]

Sorry forgot to say also this website shows the actually firgure (generally) for how many pepole r living on the earth right now. But i'm not sure they have taken into account the boxing day tsunami.

http://www.ibiblio.org/lunarbin/worldpop