How We Got to 7 Billion

How many humans have lived before you on earth?

The BBC has a new interactive feature that allows you to see where, at the time of your birth, you were positioned in the history of world population.

So for example, when I was born:

Alex:

and Baba:

Pretty cool huh? Exponential growth = crazy shit.

You can also check other facts, like your life expectancy based on gender and country, etc. Like, it said that between the time I plugged in my date of birth and got to the end of the short questionnaire, 136 people had been born. Anyway, check it out!