Sunday, May 16, 2010

Death in Hard Perspective

I did a quick math yesterday, and the answer is quite revealing.

We know the world population is about 6 billion. Assuming average lifespan of 80 years, we know that after 80 years, the entire population will be dead. Here is the statistics that follows:

World population

6,000,000,000

Death per year (÷80)

75,000,000

Death per day (÷365)

205,479

That means everyday about 200 thousand people die everyday. That is about the number of people that was wiped out during the last South Asia tsumani. It is like that terrifying tsunami happening everyday.

We are not aware of this number because it is not reported in the media, simply because those deaths are not newsworthy.

But it is happening everyday and all of us will be the part of the statistics one day, regardless of who you are and what you have.