✿ THE ENTIRE WORLD'S POPULATION COULD FIT INSIDE LOS ANGELES.
The world’s total population is more than 7.5 billion. And obviously, that number sounds huge. However, it might feel a little more manageable once you learn that if every single one of those people stood shoulder-to-shoulder, they could all fit within the 500 square miles of Los Angeles, according to National Geographic.
✿ FOUR BABIES ARE BORN EVERY SECOND.
Every second, we welcome four new babies into our overall population. Do a little math and you'll find out that means there are approximately 250 births each minute, 15,000 each hour, and 360,000 each day. In a full year, there are around 131.4 million babies born on Earth, according to the Ecology Global Network.
✿ NEARLY TWO PEOPLE DIE EACH SECOND.
While four babies are born on Earth every second, it's estimated that around two people pass away at the same time. That means that 105 people die each minute. 6,316 people die each hour, 151,600 people die each day, and 55.3 million people die each year. Sorry, folks not all interesting facts are fun!
✿MUHAMMAD IS THOUGHT TO BE THE MOST POPULAR NAME IN THE WORLD.
Step aside John, James, Mary, and Jane the most popular name in the world is believed to be Muhammad. According to the Independent an estimated 150 million men and boys around the world share this name. The popularity is thanks to a Muslim tradition of naming each first-born son after the Islamic prophet.
✿ SOUTH SUDAN IS THE YOUNGEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
Some countries are hundreds of years old, while others can trace their nation's history back for thousands of years. But South Sudan in North Africa just gained its independence from Sudan in 2011, which currently makes it the youngest country in the world.
✿ THERE ARE 43 COUNTRIES THAT STILL HAVE A ROYAL FAMILY.
The British royal family may be the most famous royal family on the planet, but there are still plenty of other nobles out there. In total, there are more than 26 royal families who rule over a total of 43 countries around the world, including Japan, Spain, Swaziland, Bhutan, Thailand, Monaco, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Liechtenstein.
✿THE RED-BILLED QUELEA IS THE MOST COMMON BIRD ON EARTH.
There may not be any red-billed queleas in your neighborhood, but that's not because there isn’t an abundance of them. These birds, which live in sub-Saharan Africa, are considered "agricultural pests" because their massive flocks can obliterate entire crops. Although their numbers fluctuate, there are around 1 to 10 billion queleas, which leads scientists to believe that there are more of them than any other bird on Earth, according to Audobon.
✿ AROUND ONE IN EVERY 200 MEN ARE DIRECT DESCENDANTS OF GENGHIS KHAN.
During his lifetime between 1162 and 1227, Genghis Khan fathered countless children. And while we may never know exactly how many offspring the leader of the Mongol Empire had, scientists now believe that around 1 in every 200 men AKA 16 million people are a direct descendant of his, according to a 2003 historical genetics paper.
✿ ALL THE ANTS ON EARTH WEIGH ABOUT AS MUCH AS ALL THE HUMANS.
The total population of people who are alive on Earth hasn't even hit 8 billion. At the same time, there are 10 quadrillion (10,000,000,000,000,000) individual ants crawling around at any given time. According to wildlife presenter who appeared on the BBC when combined, all of those ants would weigh about the same as all of us humans.
However, it said that while this fact may have been true in the past, these days "we must also remember that humans are getting fatter all the time We're not just increasing in population, we're increasing in fatness, so I think we've left the ants behind."
✿ NEARLY HALF OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION WATCHES BOTH THE 2010 AND 2014 FIFA WORLD CUP GAMES.
Soccer or football, depending on who you ask is the most popular sport around the world. That's why when the FIFA World Cup games took place in both 2010 and 2014 nearly half of the world's population (around 3.2 billion people) tuned in to see who would win.
