Good point Mike...........and what criteria is used to determine "since history began"?
In theory "history" began with the creation or the "big bang" (take your pick).
So was biblical Adam 1 with Eve 2...........and so on?

I was wondering, and was tinkering with it, but the gospel singer George Beverly Shea can't even put his date of birth in there. He can only get to within 11 months of his true age!

Aha! Nobody read the "How did we calculate that" part:

"Both numbers have been calculated using UN Population Division figures. The first is an estimate of how many people were alive on your date of birth. It is one possible value based on global population figures and estimates of growth rates over time. Data before 1950 is less accurate than figures after that date. The second number includes calculations based on the methodology of scholar Carl Haub, who estimated how many people had been alive since 50,000 B.C. His calculation has been amended by the UN to include additional points in time."


I came in at 2,414,832,932nd person alive on Earth and 75,236,277,260th person to have lived since history began. Close enough, I guess, since there don't seem to be any monetary prizes involved.

Very cool site

I came in at 3,749,580,377th person alive and 77,918,754,212th since the dawn of time

Interesting statistic......

When you were born, you were the:
2,423,816,632nd
person alive on Earth
75,271,426,398th
person to have lived since history began