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Oops, Scientists May Have Severely Miscalculated How Many Humans Are on Earth
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this post was submitted on 25 Jun 2025
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More or Less covered this a few weeks ago and the short version is that there probably aren’t significantly more people on earth, more that the estimates of where people are (rural vs urban) are incorrect, and as always, more study is needed.