More people are alive

[keys]

At present more people are alive than dead. Ive heard this fact, does anyone else heard of this too?

[joko]

i suppose it depends what you call people...do you include, homo erectus, neanderthals, cro-magnon, australopithicus... etc etc - or just homo sapiens?

i have heard this is untrue - but i cannot remember the details of why...sorry

[jno]

it isn't true

http://www.snopes.com/science/stats/dead.htm

[Memore]

I have heard that there are more people alive today than have ever lived but not sure how that works or whether it is true or not