How big was the world's population when you were born?

[pokerfan]

The world's population is due to hit 7bn this October. Use this applet to find out the world's population on your birth date, and how different countries were growing at that time...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2011/oct/24/how-big-worlds-population-born

(Note that it wants the date in DD/MM/YYYY format.)

[laconicsax]

1. -12,392,878?

I must be getting old.

[enough]

2. Well I'm too old for the calculator (only goes back to 1951), but I recently looked it up

and found out that the global population has MORE THAN DOUBLED since I was born in 1944 (closer to triple). It was about 2.5 billion back then.

[pokerfan]

3. Didn't realize that

1951 seems like an odd restriction.

Anyway, 2.9M for me. More than doubled since my birth.

[bananas]

7. But it's Science! It must be Trve!

I red it on the internet!

[Posteritatis]

9. 1951's as far back as a lot of the more comprehensive global records go

There wasn't much in terms of institutions to handle them in a consistent manner before the UN's establishment.

[Odin2005]

4. 4,804,988,391, born April 28th 1986.

[MisterP]

5. 4.8B

[Historic NY]

6. 2,733,933,481 soon to be 7 billion.

[Posteritatis]

8. One; I was a pretty solipsist infant. (nt)

[montanto]

10. 1962 =3.136B

[dbackjon]

12. Same

Depressing to think that more of the world's population is YOUNGER than you...lol

[sakabatou]

11. 4,884,816,152