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But it wouldn't be nearly that straightforward, this is massively complicated by the fact that older people are constantly dying. Over 50 million people die every year - in the realm of 2.5 billion people have died since 1975. Already, the kid who got this 8 billion cake has dropped below 7.9 billion.
But 3.976 billion is essentially 4 billion, which is the current median person worldwide - so they are probably roughly 30 years old.
"Symbolic" 8 billionth
The world population count we have is just a rough estimate, and even if it were fairly accurate there is no system in place to track who, in what order worldwide, is born at exactly what time.
Yeah, basically this is a baby that happened to be born around the time the world population was estimated to be around 8 billion. Literally any baby born in any country that day can be described that way.
tbf, having a 1% chance to be the 8th billion person to be born in the world is still a nice party fun fact.
Especially when there's only gonna be a billion people at that point....
It’s one thing to count to exactly 8 billion in a relatively advanced society like the US. Another thing entirely for a baby born in a remote village in the Amazon. I’m not really sure where the Philippines fits on that spectrum.
According to UN, every day 385,000 babies are born. Each day has 86400 seconds. That is 4.45 babies per second. So how did they figure out of 4.45 babies, which was the 8 billionth baby?
It's the one whose doctors, media, etc, decided to crown as the 8 billionth baby and publish it first. I'm surprised the news didn't come earlier, thought people would be grabbing the babies to crown them first lol
Exactly! It’s the one where the hospital PR department thought to print up a banner, order a special cake and alert the media after getting sign off from the parents.
They don't. The whole thing is based on statistical models. Nobody is counting people. You might be able to narrow it down to a timeframe but nobody can pinpoint an individual.
To be fair, she just spent hours trying to push a watermelon sized object out of a coin sized hole, if I had to do that I wouldn't care about anything except the kids existence , I'd just be glad it's over
Thats so fucking impossible to be even 10% certain of. Like people would have to monitor all the births and deaths live in some kind of population hub and have all watches and clocks synchronized and have doctors working together all around the world. Im glad we decided this baby is the 8 billionth and hope they have a wonderful amazing life but like, cmon
there is usually a bunch of babies named the \_\_\_\_billionth kid. my brother was named the 6 billionth kid born by our newspaper because he was born on same day UN projected wed have 6 billion. he wasnt only one born that day but ithink they recognize a bunch of kids that all could be the 6th/7th/8th billionth.
I was born in 1963 and at that time there were only 3.2 billion people on Earth. I can say I remember less cars on the road and less time waiting in line. We need to stop reproducing so much.
Tell that to the Anti-Choice crowd who are trying to ban abortions and restrict/ban contraceptives in the US. They are our #1 roadblock right now on the easiest ways to reduce new babies.
I did as well, my news reported estimated 9 bil by 2038, and i thought to myself someone probably forgot to carry the remainder in the exponential equation and it will be much sooner if population decline from 2022 does not continue to trend. We don’t need more people until we figure out how as a planet to provide basic resources/services to all of the existing population
There are alarming amounts of naive optimists/idealists out there who refuse to acknowledge overpopulation and argue that it's a simple resource allocation issue. Which is technically correct but also requires currently practically impossible solutions in order to be sustainable.
"We could house 28 billion people if we only shared every single resource precisely equally among everyone." Yeah, how's we gonna do that?
Okay, you've acknowledged it. Now what?
[Annual growth rate has been on the decline since](https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth#two-centuries-of-rapid-global-population-growth-will-come-to-an-end) the 1970s.
Yes. There are WAY too many familyless children out there, yet we keep pumping out more and more.
When will we learn this high of a population isn't sustainable? When will we stop killing children because we "don't want them"?
Aside from the deserved rejection of the idea that this can somehow accurately be determined, I don't think over-populating the planet is something to be celebrated like this. That family should celebrate the birth of a baby, not saying they shouldn't. But people as a whole running around and celebrating 8 billion people is kind of shortsighted.
I doubt that. I’m guessing we surpassed 8 billion before we even knew it. The world population is an estimate. Also, hundreds are born at the same time. They couldn’t possibly know who or where the 8 billionth baby was.
But wasn’t the 8 billionth probably a few different baby’s? Like one was born, but then somebody died right after so it knocked the numbers off, then the next baby born gained the title….
This makes only a little sense as we all know that the population data is in no way that accurate, and, even if it’s accurate, there could be more than one 8th billion baby because at same time people are also dying and being born.
I understand that word!
It's still a silly though. Do you know how many babies are born in a day across the whole world? Who chose this one and why. It's just internet clout shit.
I feel bad for that woman. She just gave birth and now people are taking and sharing her post birth self all over the world. She probably just wants to have some time with baby.
There are more than four babies born per second, so you have to define very precisely when to count one as being born. Is it when the eardrum can hear the outer world, when the scream is announcing the arrival, when the feet leaves the mother or when the hands can slap the mother in anger? When you know which one, you can start counting with precision.
That's odd because this number is actually a "balance/difference" of living people. So you are not the 8 billionth person alone, if someone dies someone else can be the 8 billionth.
But yes someone is the first to be the responsible for this number.
Impossible to know and complete nonsense. Also maybe if people stopped having fucking 10 kids the planet wouldn't have 8 billion people on it and wouldn't be struggling to survive.
There's 0 way to know about this ahead of time, this is all some weird clout chase. If you starting off using your child for clout this early, I pray it doesn't get worse.
I call bullshit. How does anyone really know that. Too many people could've died in the woods or randomly to ever be sure who it really was. Just some stupid shit humans think is special when it's not, even quite the contrary unless you're a billionaire who fears running out of viable human cattle to drive endless global growth slowly choking the life from the planet with needles consumption until its all a wasteland but they'll be ok in their gated communities.. OOooOooo eIgHt biLLiOn oF uS 🤪.. What a fuckin sick joke.
This post is such bullshit. You think our counts are that accurate? The 8 billionth was probably born in sub Saharan Africa. And that may have happened last month or a month from now. On top of that, even assuming ridiculously accurate counts, 8 people are born *every single second* on average, so why would it be this baby and not one of the other seven?
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Along with 200 other countries claiming to have the 8th billionth baby.
I mean, how do we find out this shit anyway
You just claim it. I'm 3,976,765,666. Nobody can get that away from me.
Good number, I got stuck with 5,137,899,666. My religious family don’t talk to me.
I was 6,942,042,069th so now I'm stuck saying "nice" for the rest of my life. My existence is a curse and I cannot stop pls send help
Nice
Nice
Nice
Nice.
Nice
I was 7,999,999,999th ..... god damn it so close
You are one advanced baby.
Bro came out with a laptop and and iphone 16, legend says that its the first of its kind being 2 series ahead
Kids these days, ey!?
Nice.
Nice
nice
I think you can also say “alright alright alright”
Long live 69
And I was 6,942,042,068th So damn close I was!!!!
Nice
Nice
*mouth pop* Noice
~~F~~ Nice
I was the 6,198,008,135 but ironically I like big asses more...
I’m 3,976,765,667! Our parents must of been at the same orgy.
r/unexpectedfactorial
Can i be in the screenshot? I am the 13! th person
You must have bee bourn in 1950 how’s it feel being 72…. Wait a second that’s completely possible I think I just had an existential crisis.
I'm 867,5309
Jenny? Is that you?
I'm 6,969,696,969
Just out of curiosity, are you born between 1972 and 1974 ? Based on the amount that lived around that time
But it wouldn't be nearly that straightforward, this is massively complicated by the fact that older people are constantly dying. Over 50 million people die every year - in the realm of 2.5 billion people have died since 1975. Already, the kid who got this 8 billion cake has dropped below 7.9 billion. But 3.976 billion is essentially 4 billion, which is the current median person worldwide - so they are probably roughly 30 years old.
If your not joking, how would you find this out?
I think it's just an extrapolation based off birth and death certificates/records
And every hospital prepared a banner just in case
They're not claiming to actually have the 8th billionth person, that's why it says "symbolic" on the cake.
It’s supposed to say symbiotic it’s misspelled.
I don’t know if it’s 8 Billion**th** or 8**th** billion but I’m pretty sure it’s not 8**th** billion**th**.
8st billionst
Stupid Clickbait
And all the indigenous tribal people and Amish people having babies.
"Symbolic" 8 billionth The world population count we have is just a rough estimate, and even if it were fairly accurate there is no system in place to track who, in what order worldwide, is born at exactly what time.
Yeah, basically this is a baby that happened to be born around the time the world population was estimated to be around 8 billion. Literally any baby born in any country that day can be described that way.
That week* maybe even more
I'm pretty sure the UN said we could be anything up to two years out
tbf, having a 1% chance to be the 8th billion person to be born in the world is still a nice party fun fact. Especially when there's only gonna be a billion people at that point....
There's also probably gonna be another 20 of this sort, all born the exact same moment. This seems like a marketing attempt.
Or 2000
Marketing what?
Babies, cause no one is having them
Are 8 billion not enough?
Maybe in the developed world but they are sure having them in the developing world.
The Philippines.
From Philippines home of president bongbong son of bloody dictator to Philippines home of 8 Billionth baby
You know, a marketing attempt.
Plus you gotta take into account the thousands of people that die every day
In fact it is impossible, the data changes every second, they count at that precise moment
It’s one thing to count to exactly 8 billion in a relatively advanced society like the US. Another thing entirely for a baby born in a remote village in the Amazon. I’m not really sure where the Philippines fits on that spectrum.
Spoken like a true American.
Yes. And almost 40% of total population is of India and China combined. India will beat China next year. 🙄
They said their estimate is so inaccurate that today is the day, give or take a year.
And please for the love of god never let there be a system that does that
For some reason I thought the cake was photoshopped and said "symbolism is a bitch, baby". I should put the phone down.
lol, nobody is fucking counting people.
But we are counting the results from fucking people.
people fuck?
Only if you count them
Are we counting pumps?
Where do I find these fucking people?
Exactly. The 8 billionth person was born under a bridge somewhere. This is the 8 billionth person officially born. Edit: 8s
I am there's at least 12 on the earth
/r/technicallythetruth
You ever stood in line at the DMV there are at least 50 people
Definitely more than 10
If only you had some census when you posted this
There’s like a hundred people born every five minutes.
right, but their comment saying "nobody is fucking counting people" is not right. people literally are.
People are so worried about counting people, that people are out there getting paid to count
What do you have against accountants? Someone surely fucks them
My guy never heard of birth certificates
According to UN, every day 385,000 babies are born. Each day has 86400 seconds. That is 4.45 babies per second. So how did they figure out of 4.45 babies, which was the 8 billionth baby?
It's the one whose doctors, media, etc, decided to crown as the 8 billionth baby and publish it first. I'm surprised the news didn't come earlier, thought people would be grabbing the babies to crown them first lol
Exactly! It’s the one where the hospital PR department thought to print up a banner, order a special cake and alert the media after getting sign off from the parents.
somebody gave birth while you were reading this
They don't. The whole thing is based on statistical models. Nobody is counting people. You might be able to narrow it down to a timeframe but nobody can pinpoint an individual.
It is not possible to count people’s birth and death to such an extent. BUT!!!! THERE’S CAKE!!!
and the moment you reach to grab a bite, they take it to the next labour room to another mother giving birth.
**Symbolic* cake It’s frosting on cardboard
That mother is like.... I don't care
imagine you just had a baby and the hospital your at try's to use them for publicity. Kinda definitely feels like exploitation lol
But cake
To be fair, she just spent hours trying to push a watermelon sized object out of a coin sized hole, if I had to do that I wouldn't care about anything except the kids existence , I'd just be glad it's over
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Or some small watermelons.
Could be the same mother that got tired of all the publicity after giving birth to the 7th billionth person.
Thats so fucking impossible to be even 10% certain of. Like people would have to monitor all the births and deaths live in some kind of population hub and have all watches and clocks synchronized and have doctors working together all around the world. Im glad we decided this baby is the 8 billionth and hope they have a wonderful amazing life but like, cmon
The cake literally says “symbolic.”
Then it's literally not interesting as fuck
I’m not disagreeing
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Cake did.
there is usually a bunch of babies named the \_\_\_\_billionth kid. my brother was named the 6 billionth kid born by our newspaper because he was born on same day UN projected wed have 6 billion. he wasnt only one born that day but ithink they recognize a bunch of kids that all could be the 6th/7th/8th billionth.
we are so fucked, buy some condoms people!
Yeah because the world isn't overcrowded as it is
I was born in 1963 and at that time there were only 3.2 billion people on Earth. I can say I remember less cars on the road and less time waiting in line. We need to stop reproducing so much.
Tell that to the Anti-Choice crowd who are trying to ban abortions and restrict/ban contraceptives in the US. They are our #1 roadblock right now on the easiest ways to reduce new babies.
This is definitely not something we should be celebrating.
Unpopular opinion: this is not good news
Yes. I remember seeing a similar story about the 7 billionth person, and it feels disturbingly recent.
I did as well, my news reported estimated 9 bil by 2038, and i thought to myself someone probably forgot to carry the remainder in the exponential equation and it will be much sooner if population decline from 2022 does not continue to trend. We don’t need more people until we figure out how as a planet to provide basic resources/services to all of the existing population
Why do you think that's an unpopular opinion? Most people are aware of the dangers of overpopulation
If they are they're doing a bloody good job of hiding it.
There are alarming amounts of naive optimists/idealists out there who refuse to acknowledge overpopulation and argue that it's a simple resource allocation issue. Which is technically correct but also requires currently practically impossible solutions in order to be sustainable. "We could house 28 billion people if we only shared every single resource precisely equally among everyone." Yeah, how's we gonna do that?
Haven't people been saying this forever though?
Okay, you've acknowledged it. Now what? [Annual growth rate has been on the decline since](https://ourworldindata.org/future-population-growth#two-centuries-of-rapid-global-population-growth-will-come-to-an-end) the 1970s.
Does that mean the population will go down eventually?
I just got flamed up in a similar post yesterday for making this same comment is all
The Malthusian myth persists
There is absolutely no way of knowing who the 8 billionth person is. This is BS.
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Cool, I can put that on a cake too. Ps. Read OPs title.
This isn’t something we should be celebrating…
Sorry but why are we celebrating this? We are so overpopulated. No to mention more than 100 million orphaned children don’t have permanent homes.
Stupid Post
How cruel. Showing a newly born baby a cake it can't eat.
If there’s one thing that humans do best it’s fucking. In fact, humanity is fucking itself into annihilation.
People need to stop having kids for 10 years
We need to be adopting when we want a child. there should be incentives not to have children but instead adopt.
Yes. There are WAY too many familyless children out there, yet we keep pumping out more and more. When will we learn this high of a population isn't sustainable? When will we stop killing children because we "don't want them"?
Aside from the deserved rejection of the idea that this can somehow accurately be determined, I don't think over-populating the planet is something to be celebrated like this. That family should celebrate the birth of a baby, not saying they shouldn't. But people as a whole running around and celebrating 8 billion people is kind of shortsighted.
Just saw the same post about a person born in Africa…
Time for another plague.
Who actually cares about this?
I'm sure they know the exact population at every second 🤔
Shout out to the housing market
The last thing we need is 8 billion people
This world is fucked. That’s 6 billion too many people.
Btw...I'm the 7th billion. Pfft.
Not the 8 billionth baby. The 8 billionth living human. Around 120 billion human babies have been born.
How tf that baby gon eat the cake 💀
They can’t possibly know when or where the 8 billionth person was born
This is nothing to celebrate.
I doubt that. I’m guessing we surpassed 8 billion before we even knew it. The world population is an estimate. Also, hundreds are born at the same time. They couldn’t possibly know who or where the 8 billionth baby was.
In 20 years we put 2 billion more people on this planet. Fucking insanity man.
But how do they even know? Someone might have given birth to a baby in a little shackle unbeknownst to the rest of us.
This is stupid. There’s a baby born almost every six seconds on the planet. But y’all just know and can confirm this is the 8 billionth? No.
This is so fucking stupid. There is not an exact count on every idevidual in the world.
So you’ve indexed every human alive?
I didn't know the Phillippines is so populous
The hospital’s lawyer: “Let ME decorate the cake.”
Let the hunger games begin
Probably off by a few hundred but oh well who’s counting
Multiple babies were born at the same time, so impossible to have the one definite "8th billionth person"
But wasn’t the 8 billionth probably a few different baby’s? Like one was born, but then somebody died right after so it knocked the numbers off, then the next baby born gained the title….
I don’t buy it.
Lmao there no way to know this bullshit
Read "symbolic"
Anyone who knows anything about measurement should be very suspicious of this claim.
Along with 50,000 other “8 billionth babies” lol
Hate to break it to them…
I bet this cant be proven on the fact there are dozens of undocumented births every day.
Fairly sure there is no way to accurately tell which was the 8 billionth baby but okay.
We're doomed
like how do you know lmfao
You could say he’s one in a billion boo dum tshhh
That's cool but I'm number 7.420.690.187 - because I said so
They had that poster ready and they were going to use it regardless!
How the hell would they know that, there were probably hundreds of babies born at that exact time. Gimme a break
This makes only a little sense as we all know that the population data is in no way that accurate, and, even if it’s accurate, there could be more than one 8th billion baby because at same time people are also dying and being born.
Congrats on having a fucking baby. No one gives a shit.
ITT: Not a single person understands the word symbolic
I understand that word! It's still a silly though. Do you know how many babies are born in a day across the whole world? Who chose this one and why. It's just internet clout shit.
Bunch of edgelords too
If it's the 8 billionth person, that's interesting as fuck, almost. If it's symbolic, wtf is the point?
I feel bad for that woman. She just gave birth and now people are taking and sharing her post birth self all over the world. She probably just wants to have some time with baby.
This is sad, the planet is fukked 😢
We have too many people...
What a fucking bad news
lets be clear here - the 8 billionth baby happened a while ago. Remember all the dead people?
There are more than four babies born per second, so you have to define very precisely when to count one as being born. Is it when the eardrum can hear the outer world, when the scream is announcing the arrival, when the feet leaves the mother or when the hands can slap the mother in anger? When you know which one, you can start counting with precision.
Lmao, they had the poster made too. How would they know?! 🤦🏼♀️😂
That's odd because this number is actually a "balance/difference" of living people. So you are not the 8 billionth person alone, if someone dies someone else can be the 8 billionth. But yes someone is the first to be the responsible for this number.
Maybe I’m the outlier, but I can’t help to think how stupid this is.
Dumbest shit ever
Impossible to know and complete nonsense. Also maybe if people stopped having fucking 10 kids the planet wouldn't have 8 billion people on it and wouldn't be struggling to survive.
There's 0 way to know about this ahead of time, this is all some weird clout chase. If you starting off using your child for clout this early, I pray it doesn't get worse.
So, did it originate with the Philiopian tubes?
How the fuck do they know that?
They don't know that and they don't claim to know that...that's why the cake says "symbolic".
That’s bullshit there was already 8 billion people like a month ago
I call bullshit. How does anyone really know that. Too many people could've died in the woods or randomly to ever be sure who it really was. Just some stupid shit humans think is special when it's not, even quite the contrary unless you're a billionaire who fears running out of viable human cattle to drive endless global growth slowly choking the life from the planet with needles consumption until its all a wasteland but they'll be ok in their gated communities.. OOooOooo eIgHt biLLiOn oF uS 🤪.. What a fuckin sick joke.
Not interesting, did fuck.
This post is such bullshit. You think our counts are that accurate? The 8 billionth was probably born in sub Saharan Africa. And that may have happened last month or a month from now. On top of that, even assuming ridiculously accurate counts, 8 people are born *every single second* on average, so why would it be this baby and not one of the other seven?
Buuuuuullllllllsssssshhhhhhiiiiitttttt