The journey of your life

September 10, 2023 4:54 PM

What's my place in the world population? How long will I live?
posted by chavenet (32 comments total)

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posted by clockwork at 5:02 PM on September 10, 2023 [3 favorites]

I love these sort of things, however, why does the number of people older than me keep ticking upwards? that seems... incompatible with linear time.
posted by Cold Lurkey at 5:10 PM on September 10, 2023 [5 favorites]

It said I was going to live forever. Interesting.
posted by betweenthebars at 5:27 PM on September 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

Gosh, it says I’ll die in October of 2065. That’s nice, I like October. Assuming we have autumns then.
posted by Countess Elena at 6:50 PM on September 10, 2023 [6 favorites]

You are the 6,633,809,373 person alive on the planet. This means that you are older than 82% of the world's population and older than 72% of all people in United States.
posted by doctornemo at 6:53 PM on September 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

I can guess where I'll probably die: in a hallway outside an ER in Ontario, waiting for treatment.
posted by ovvl at 7:22 PM on September 10, 2023 [9 favorites]

Dying in 2054, eh? Clearly the site didn't see me eating potato chips for dinner.
posted by mittens at 7:27 PM on September 10, 2023 [6 favorites]

I put Kissinger's birth date in and the page just hangs forever with a throbber. This thing is uncannily accurate.
posted by flabdablet at 8:25 PM on September 10, 2023 [11 favorites]

I didn't expect it, but that made me feel surprisingly mortal.
posted by Literaryhero at 8:36 PM on September 10, 2023 [4 favorites]

Their Why Us? page is about as creepy as can be expected. No, I am *not* going to put any of my own PII into this thing.
posted by flabdablet at 8:59 PM on September 10, 2023 [6 favorites]

How does one pronounce "3,000,000,000rd"?
posted by Baethan at 9:29 PM on September 10, 2023 [2 favorites]

"Three billiard"?
posted by wanderingmind at 9:45 PM on September 10, 2023 [6 favorites]

Interesting that I get to live for 18 days more because I live in Australia vs living in NZ. I knew moving here would pay off!
posted by dg at 9:49 PM on September 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

I'm gonna live to be 404 Not Found.
posted by alby at 10:08 PM on September 10, 2023 [3 favorites]

I guess I'm pretty old. Dang. 81% older...

As Steven Wright says, "I plan to live forever. So far, so good."

(also, too, it says that the number of people who are older than me is constantly increasing, and I'm still trying to figure out how that is possible)
posted by Chuffy at 10:14 PM on September 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

Just a side effect of globally harmonized data being consistent across time and space, I'm guessing.
posted by flabdablet at 10:35 PM on September 10, 2023 [1 favorite]

also, too, it says that the number of people who are older than me is constantly increasing, and I'm still trying to figure out how that is possible

Zombie apocalypse
posted by Serene Empress Dork at 11:01 PM on September 10, 2023 [2 favorites]

I looked at that great big number ticking steadily upward, "Hello.... Bonjour... Hola..." and all I could think was, if this site is still up when climate change starts that number ticking downward, and it might still be up, are they going update the number to show the change in trajectory? When five million people die in a heat wave, and when 600,000 die in hurricane season, and when there is no grain being shipped to Africa, and when hundreds of cities are dealing with each day's refrigerator truck load of respiratory arrests during forest fire season... Are they going to keep generating their number somehow? Will they update the data? Will they even try?

Probably not. And anyway, I won't be around to log on and see it.

I hate big numbers. I really, really hate big numbers, because they mean so much. Every one of those eight-billion-and-whatever they are counting just matters so much. Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick...
posted by Jane the Brown at 11:49 PM on September 10, 2023 [3 favorites]

I find it very hard to believe that I'll live until 2071
posted by june_dodecahedron at 12:11 AM on September 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

Astonishing that the billionth person and the 5 billionth person were both born during my lifetime.

Note: alive, that is, not the actual billionth/ 5 billionth human
posted by tavegyl at 3:06 AM on September 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

Mrs Phanx and I will apparently die on the same day, her slightly greater expectancy exactly offset by the fact that she, um, got started earlier.
posted by Phanx at 4:32 AM on September 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

November 29th, 2056. The day after Thanksgiving. That'll be nice.
posted by Etrigan at 6:18 AM on September 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

Trump finally goes to his eternal reward on Sept. 9, 2034. Eleven more years of this shit. Jesus.
posted by Naberius at 7:15 AM on September 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

The people older than me stat is counting down.
posted by joannemerriam at 7:36 AM on September 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

For the USA, their data source is a little more generous with life expectancies than the Social Security Administration's actuarial tables. This page give me four additional years to outlive my retirement savings.
posted by paper chromatographologist at 7:59 AM on September 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

i already bought an iron, i don't need to see ads for 27 different irons.
posted by user92371 at 8:13 AM on September 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

There's no way I'm going to live as long as they think I am. Nobody in my family ever made it past 86 yet and that was with the vast advantages of healthy natural food that wasn't full of chemicals and plastic and quality accessible health care like they had in the mid 20th century for white middle class people.
posted by mygothlaundry at 8:43 AM on September 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

Astonishing that the billionth person and the 5 billionth person were both born during my lifetime.

The world population reached one billion in 1804. Congratulations on your longevity record!
posted by binturong at 10:30 AM on September 11, 2023 [2 favorites]

This shit stresses me out
posted by gottabefunky at 12:17 PM on September 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

> I can guess where I'll probably die: in a hallway outside an ER in Ontario, waiting for treatment

And you'll die of shock, more than likely. Try to hold yourself together.
posted by The corpse in the library at 12:39 PM on September 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

That was depressing. Now I feel old.
posted by mike3k at 4:02 PM on September 11, 2023 [1 favorite]

That was depressing. Now I feel old.
posted by mike3k at 12:02 AM on September 12 [+] [!]

The snaking timeline diagram legitimately bummed me out to see. Might make a version to hang on my wall as a memento mori, stick a pin in each birthday.
posted by rollick at 10:58 AM on September 12, 2023