People born on Earth since our species appeared
1 in 117 BillionBe born again as someone from human history.
Some 117 billion people have been born in the roughly 190,000 years since our species appeared. You will be born as one of them, chosen at random, and live that life in three to five minutes. You can't choose the era, the place, or your family.
Each band's width is its share of everyone ever born. Only about 8% were born after 1950.
For ages 15 and up. Infant deaths, famine, epidemics and war happen at their estimated historical rates. Nothing is depicted; only the facts are stated.
Your past lives
Sources for the numbers, and the limits of this simulation
As PRB itself notes, no population data exist for more than 99% of the time humans have been around. Every number here is an estimate. Regional shares before the modern era have wide margins of error, and regional shares in the hunter-gatherer era are assumptions. Many internal settings, such as family size and the odds of each choice's outcomes, also involve assumptions.
You were born
Your past life
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