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How small of a space can all the people of earth fit into?

I've heard they can fit into a county in Indiana...

and there's about 6.3 billion people on earth

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  • 1 decade ago
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    You can fit an average human in a space 1 ft by 1 1/2 feet, without squeezing too much.

    For 6.3 billion people, this makes an area a bit less than 340 square miles. That is a 18.4 miles by 18.4 miles square, i.e. not a very large area overall.

  • bw022
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    You don't need nearly that amount of space.

    Your average human would fit in a 1.7m x 0.4m x 0.4 m box. They thus have a volume of (1.7x0.4x0.4) 0.272 cubic meters.

    There are 6.3 billion people so the total volume of all people on the planet would be (0.272 x 6.3 billion) 171,360,000 cubic meters.

    Thus...

    Every human on Earth would fit into a cube about 1.2 km per side (cube root of 171,360,000).

    Every human on Earth could stand in a field of about 31.8 km square kilometers (sqrt of (171,360,000/1.7)). That is about a third the area of Rhode Island.

  • Jack T
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    it will fit in a peace of paper (any size), it's only 4 words right.

    beside that there are so many ways you can do to fit them in a small spaces.

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