Tweet from MaxCRoser at March 15, 2022 at 06:34AM

• Demographers estimate that 117 billion humans have been born.
• Almost 8 billion are alive now.

To bring these large numbers into perspective I made this visualization.

A giant hourglass. But instead of measuring the passage of time, it measures the passage of people. /2 https://t.co/hXWxIGMQ9e

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser)
Mar 15, 2022

from http://twitter.com/MaxCRoser