This week, the world’s human #population is expected to reach 8B. About 109B people have lived and died. Each grain of sand represents 10M.

Spectacular #data visualization of human life on Earth by Max Roser #science #SharedPlanet

@Sheril

This is the page with the hourglass garphics and further info text

https://ourworldindata.org/longtermism

Longtermism: The future is vast – what does this mean for our own life?

If we manage to avoid a large catastrophe, we are living at the early beginnings of human history.

Our World in Data