How Many People Have Ever Lived?

Year	Population	Births per 1,000	Births Between Benchmarks	Number Ever Born	Percent of Those Ever Born
50,000 B.C.E.	2	–	–	–	–
8000 B.C.E.	5,000,000	80	1,137,789,769	1,137,789,769	0.4
1 C.E.	300,000,000	80	46,025,332,354	47,163,122,125	0.6
1200	450,000,000	60	26,591,343,000	73,754,465,125	0.6
1650	500,000,000	60	12,782,002,453	86,536,467,578	0.6
1750	795,000,000	50	3,171,931,513	89,708,399,091	0.9
1850	1,265,000,000	40	4,046,240,009	93,754,639,100	1.3
1900	1,656,000,000	40	2,900,237,856	96,654,876,956	1.7
1950	2,516,000,000	31-38	3,390,198,215	100,045,075,171	2.5
1995	5,760,000,000	31	5,427,305,000	105,472,380,171	5.5
2011	6,987,000,000	23	2,130,327,622	107,602,707,793	6.5
2017	7,536,000,000	19	867,982,322	108,470,690,115	6.9
2030	8,563,000,000	16	1,806,595,106	110,277,285,221	7.8
2050	9,846,000,000	15	2,833,529,982	113,110,815,203	8.7

^{Note: The estimates for those ever born apply only to live births; still births are not counted.
Source: Toshiko Kaneda and Genevieve Dupuis, 2017 World Population Data Sheet (Washington, DC: Population Reference Bureau, 2017); United Nations Popul}ation Division, World Population Prospects: The 2017 Revision (New York: United Nations, 2017).

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