What Earth Would Look Like If Only 100 People Lived Here

 

If Earth had just 100 people:
↳ 34 doesn't have internet
↳ 13 can't read or write
↳ 8 don't have clean water
↳ 8 live on less than $2 a day

And you're reading this on LinkedIn.
Think about that for a second.

The truth is:
You're already in the top 1%

7 ways to use your luck to get unstuck:

1/ Turn Knowledge Into Action
↳ Pick one course (not five)
↳ Study 25 mins every morning
↳ Teach someone what you learned

2/ Create Your Success Routine
↳ Wake up 45 mins earlier
↳ Read 10 pages before screens
↳ Write 3 goals before email
↳ Small wins compound quickly

3/ Build Real Connections
↳ Message 2 new people daily
↳ Share their wins (not just yours)
↳ Ask how you can help them

4/ Master Your Money
↳ Learn one money skill monthly
↳ Track every dollar for 30 days
↳ Knowledge equals freedom

5/ Boost Your Energy
↳ Walk 15 mins at lunch
↳ Sleep 7+ hours (non-negotiable)
↳ High energy unlocks everything else

6/ Create Instead of Consume
↳ Write one helpful post weekly
↳ Share three lessons you learned
↳ Build something small daily

7/ Practice Deep Gratitude
↳ List 3 unique blessings daily
↳ Help one person without asking
↳ Grateful people grow faster

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World's largest cities by population in millions, 1950 - 2026

 

As of early 2026, Jakarta (approx. 42 million) and Dhaka (approx. 37 million) are leading as the world's most populous cities, with Tokyo's population slightly declining but remaining a top contender. The list is dominated by Asian cities, with 21 of the 34 megacities (over 10M) located in Asia. This marks a dramatic shift from 1950, when New York was the only megacity, growing to a landscape where Tokyo dominated for decades, now moving toward faster-growing cities in Africa and Asia.

 

Top 10 Largest Cities (2026 Projections)

·        Jakarta, Indonesia: ~42.46 million (often cited in top spot due to urban sprawl)

·        Dhaka, Bangladesh: ~37.43 million

·        Tokyo, Japan: ~37.1 million (slightly declining)

·        Delhi, India: ~35.5 million

·        Shanghai, China: ~31.0 million

·        Guangzhou, China: ~23.5 million (Note: Some data sources, such as CityPopulation.de, place Guangzhou higher based on different agglomeration metrics)

·        Cairo, Egypt: ~23.5 million

·        Sao Paulo, Brazil: ~23.1 million

·        Mexico City, Mexico: ~23.0 million

·        Beijing, China: ~22.9 million 

Key Historical Shifts (1950 - 2026)

·        1950: New York was the world’s largest city.

·        1955-2025: Tokyo was the most populous, peaking over 37 million.

·        2026/Future: Rapid growth in cities like Kinshasa and Dhaka is expected to change the ranking, with Delhi expected to become the largest by 2050.

·        Regional Dominance: The 1950s saw Western cities dominate, while current data shows 9 out of 10 top cities are in Asia. 

 Important Context on Data

·        Urban Agglomeration vs. City Proper: Population figures vary significantly based on whether metrics define the city by city limits, metro area, or total urban agglomeration.

·        Fastest Growth: Africa and Asia are currently seeing the most rapid increases in urban population. 

The Generation Gap

 

Source: The Generation Gap

The Generation Gap infographic by Steve Perry highlights the birth years of different generations. The stats from 2022 led him to develop a few fun facts of the differences between the generations.

Millennials have surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest generation in the United States, with an estimated population of over 72 million. While Millennials and Gen Z face challenges in building wealth, with factors such as student loan debt and rising home prices, Baby Boomers tend to have the highest wealth accumulation, with only 20% of the population they have 52% of the wealth in the country, benefiting from longer periods of economic growth and home ownership. Older generations have traditionally had higher voter turnout rates compared to younger generations. Millennials and Generation X are becoming increasingly politically engaged. Older generations are also delaying retirement and staying in the workforce longer, leading to a “graying” of the labor force and potential competition for job opportunities with younger generations.

Population of countries - 2024

 

Visualizing Everyone that has Ever Lived

 

How do you visualize every human that has ever lived in the last 2 million years? Max Roser with Our World in Data had the idea to turn us all into grains of sand within an hourglass, and to equate the passing of people to the passing of time. The Humanity Today and Humanity’s Past infographic highlights a few key points in history and gives us a perspective of just how population growth has exploded over the last 2000 years.

Our past

Before we look ahead, let’s look back. How many came before us? How many humans have ever lived?

It is not possible to answer this question precisely, but demographers Toshiko Kaneda and Carl Haub have tackled the question using the ​​historical knowledge that we do have.

There isn’t a particular moment in which humanity came into existence, as the transition from species to species is gradual. But if one wants to count all humans one has to make a decision about when the first humans lived. The two demographers used 200,000 years before today as this cutoff.1

The demographers estimate that in these 200,000 years about 109 billion people have lived and died.2

It is these 109 billion people we have to thank for the civilization that we live in. The languages we speak, the food we cook, the music we enjoy, the tools we use – what we know we learned from them. The houses we live in, the infrastructure we rely on, the grand achievements of architecture – much of what we see around us was built by them.

Our present

In 2022 7.95 billion of us are alive. Taken together with those who have died, about 117 billion humans have been born since the dawn of modern humankind.

This means that those of us who are alive now represent about 6.8% of all people who ever lived.

These numbers are hard to grasp. I tried to bring it into a visualization to put them into perspective.3

It’s a giant hourglass. But instead of measuring the passage of time, it measures the passage of people.

Each grain of sand here represents 10 million people: each year 140 million babies are born. So we add 14 grains of sand to the hourglass. Every year, 60 million people die; this means 6 grains pass through the hourglass and are added to the large number of people who have died.4

As noted on the graphic, this is an updated adaptation of a 2013 visualization by Oliver Uberti.

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Countries by Population size

 

Data Statistica

Population in countries

 

World of Statistics

The genetic map of Europe

Largest African Population