Population Facts

A mathematical thought experiment once claimed that if China's population walked past you in single file, the line would never end due to reproduction rates—but China's population is now declining for the first time since 1961.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

You share your birthday with at least 9 other million people in the world.

The population of the Earth has more than doubled since 1950.

The number of text messages sent and received in a given day is greater than the world's population.

If Manhattan had the same population density as Alaska, only about 30 people would live there.

Every three seconds, a new baby is born.

Despite being the birthplace of Buddhism, India today has less than 1% Buddhist population, a dramatic decline that occurred over the past thousand years.

Approximately one-third of the population can't snap their fingers!

"Monowi" is a town in Nebraska that has a population of 1; the Mayor pays taxes to herself.

Each year, the number of births in India is comparable to the entire population of Australia.

Roughly a quarter of the world's people live in China.

More than half the population of Kenya is under the age of 15.

There are more insects in one square mile of rural land than there are human beings in the world.

There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.

In Japan, more adult diapers are sold than baby diapers.

If you're one in a million, there are about 8,100 people just like you.

Only 2% of the worlds population is blonde.

Roughly 90% of the world's population live in the northern hemisphere.

It took roughly 200,000 years for the human population to reach 1 billion. It took only 39 years to add the next 3 billion after we hit 3 billion in 1960.

In Japan, there are more pets than there are children.

Every person in the world can fit in Texas and be given over 1000 sq ft in which to live.

There are approximately three chickens for every human on Earth.

There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.