Is it possible that there are more people living on Earth today than have ever lived and died in history?
922012
No. It's a myth, started in the 70s\n\nhttp://www.prb.org/Template.cfm?Section=PRB&template=/Content/ContentGroups/02_Articles/0ct-Dec02/How_Many_People_Have_Ever_Lived_on_Earth_.htm
165744
i suppose so. and i believe this can be concluded from the world migration levels as made possible by advances in transporation and communication. of course, this is not just the reason, many other things like political (insecurity, wars, etc) or economic (lack of jobs or low in home sending countries, lack of skilled manpower in receiving countries as a result of declining birth rates, etc.) contribute to this. and the bottomline is the mobility of people.in fact, according to an international organization, from 1965 to 2000, some 10% of the world's population do not live in their countries of birth! and this is on the rise! expect more inter racial relationships.
704977
5 billion seems like way too many, given that the population of the entire planet is 6 billion.\n\nI have heard the 55 million figure passed around in conversation.
397621
I dont know if we have acheived more.  Think about the Egyptians.  They were not white.  Think about the Aztecs or the Mayans.  They were not white.  In fact, if you consider the capabilites we have versus the capabilites they had, and then compare the accomlishments, they are heads above us.  And we have not behaved very well in our past.  As humans of conscience, we should be apologetic for out shameful moments.
771712
You ask an interesting question, actuallly.  The techniques used to answer this question keep getting refined and the equipment keeps improving, which allows scientists to make better estimates on this number.  Current estimates have it at roughly 125 billion.  Now, new technolgies may change this estimate - as knowledge improves, scientists reserve the right to change their minds.  :)
188456
yes, yes, and yes...but only when necessary...i dont really believe that there is anyone who hasnt in some point in their life...\n\nand how are you today! still crusading i see...
128442
It's virtually impossible to know the actual population of the earth. Even if you somehow managed to count 6 billion + people, there would be more being born in the process than you could keep up with. Our best method is to do very well-calculated statistics and baset the population on that.
83493
No, that's why wars happen and massive epidemic viruses. Nature has its way of underpopulating, but if science continues keeping people that should die at their old stages from dying maybe someday we could get overpopulated. Therefore we should move to another planet...hehe
348137
if theres not i would be extreme surprised.  the universe is so huge that it would be ridiculos to assume or think there isnt.  even though we have only explored probably less then 1% of the universe we have still found planets that we think would be able to suport human life (remember not all life would have to be carbon based like us either) so even if there isnt a planet that we could live on some other type of creature might think its paradise.  the answer to your question is yes there is most likely life other then ours out there somewhere. although it would depend on what you mean by "life" if you mean intelligent life i still think yes there probably is although they have found fossils of bacteria on mars so technically that means there was at one point there was life in our solar system other then earth.
248212
what kind of question is this? well if u must have an answer then hear it is. think about this people die everyday. and for millions of years, people of died everyday. think about the math.
55977
Of course there are. There are millions all over the world :).
375720
Here's an unneccessarily philosophical answer:\nDead people arent people.  They were once people, but now they are nothing.  So given that there are exactly 0 dead people, and approximately 6 billion living people, there are more people living than dead.
47058
I would assume, the people in this question:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AjjR0dbsGp5VqsB5P3SpF1Xsy6IX?qid=1006010203102\n\nAnd, it seems, up to 9.5 million other people:
1175089
I think the author is trying to get across the idea that there was no big leap from our non-human ancestors to modern humans.  You can look at modern humans, and recognize them as modern humans, but if you look at our ancestors, say, 2 million years ago, you would not call them modern humans.  In between are a bunch of different hominid species, which, as you move closer and closer to us, look more and more human.  But there is no bright line, no point at which you can say "Ah, that population is defiantely the first population of humans".
206523
I'd imagine there is.... the universe is way to big to assume that we are the only planet with 'civilized' life on it.\n\n& really... are we THAT civilized???   :P
64571
Must be around 6 billion. Wow, to think I remember back when the world population was around 4 billion. No matter how many people die off, they keep popping back up like crabgrass.
27119
I think so! It explains a lot of innate knowledge that some people have, wisdom before their years, very mature cildren, etc. Whereas other people are very naive and immature for their age. I think the fact that many people seem to instinctively know things about history (before they're taught about it) and that feeling you sometimes get of having known a person  forever are both proof that we have lived other lives before this one. \nWhat do you think?