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Originally Posted by SneakySnake
I think it was there are more people alive over the age of 65 than ever made past 65 that are dead!  I think.
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You may be right. I just found this quote from the population reference bureau site
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sometime back in the 1970s a now-forgotten writer made the statement that 75 percent of the people who had ever been born were alive at that moment.
This factoid has had a long shelf life, even though a bit of reflection would show how unlikely it is. For this "estimate" to be true would mean either that births in the 20th century far, far outnumbered those in the past or that there were an extraordinary number of extremely old people living in the 1970s.
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...so it seems like it's not true.
30 billion?