How many people have died since, like, 1300 A.D.?

[TheWizardOfMudd]

I wonder.

[Archae]

1. The ones that had their hearts stop.

Just those. :crazy:

[TheWizardOfMudd]

3. Death is generally defined by brain function

The heart can be beating, but the brain can be dead, and you could be declared dead.

[Dookus]

2. just about all of 'em

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

5. Safe estimate there

[devilgrrl]

4. Since 1300 A.D? Uh... like milllions and millions I would imagine.

:shrug:

[Sean Reynolds]

7. I'd say billions......

99 billion served at McDonalds should be dying soon too. ;-)

[cyclezealot]

6. Wizard. I think you want a statistican

The best I can do with this answer..Is human population growth is almost linear...For the first 6 million years of human existance, human population hardly ever got over 5 million persons..When humans evolved to agriculture, human population festered to like 50,000,000. Population never got over one billion souls until like 1900..After penicilin it really took off.
Since 1940 it has grown from like 3.5 billion to near 7 billion.
So, how many souls...Probably more now die in a day, than maybe all souls than existed for half of our existence..
Just a guess...So many factors..How many souls at any given time and what is their life expectancy..

[TheWizardOfMudd]

8. Thank You

I especially liked the "souls" part.

[ThoughtCriminal]

9. I remember an estimate

in the early 70's that 100 billion humans had lived since we became "Human". It is a very difficult calculation with many unknowns. Another huge unknown is how many humans lived in the Western Hemisphere in 1492.

[the Kelly Gang]

10. I guarantee that everyone since then is dead ! apart from..

some who were born last century.

That doesn't apply to werewolves etc