Understanding Global Population
There are 6.3 billion people on Earth. As that is such a large number, it can help to think about it in different ways:
1) You would have to meet 2.5 new people every second of your life (86400 seconds in a day, 31 536 000 seconds in a year, 2 522 880 000 seconds in an 80 years life span)
2) Try to remember the last time you were in a stadium of about
50 000 people. For you to be exposed to everyone on the Earth, you would have to go to such a stadium 126 000 times. Accordingly, you would have to go to a stadium full of 50 000 new people 4 times a day, every day of your life.
*This is assuming that the population stays constant at 6.3 billion for the rest of your life (which we know it won't).
1) You would have to meet 2.5 new people every second of your life (86400 seconds in a day, 31 536 000 seconds in a year, 2 522 880 000 seconds in an 80 years life span)
2) Try to remember the last time you were in a stadium of about
50 000 people. For you to be exposed to everyone on the Earth, you would have to go to such a stadium 126 000 times. Accordingly, you would have to go to a stadium full of 50 000 new people 4 times a day, every day of your life.
*This is assuming that the population stays constant at 6.3 billion for the rest of your life (which we know it won't).
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