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Can the total number of people who have ever lived on the Earth be estimated in some reasonable way? This fascinating question has been the subject of a number of papers, the first by Winkler [15], others by Deevey [3], Desmond et al [4], Keyfitz [7], and the most recent by Westing [13]. Curiously enough, the two-page article by Keyfitz and the estimate obtained therein found their way into the Information Please Almanac [6] under the title “How Many Earth People Have There Been?”
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Goldberg, S. (1983). How Many People Have Ever Lived?. In: Probability in Social Science. Mathematical Modeling, vol 1a. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5616-8_2
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