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By reading this, you have confirmed your membership in the Five Percenters Club. Welcome.

Well, this text may be read by a person born in the future. It's hard to tell whether the population will keep growing or if it will fall by then. It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future

Even more remarkable is that by the estimate in Table 1, the percentage is increasing over time.

If this trend continues over the centuries it is conceivable that >=50% of all human beings to ever exist could be extantly alive. Either growth rate exploded or death rate arrested.

It recalls to mind Fyodor the one-time teacher of Tsiolkovsky of the rocket equation, who conceived a kind of akashic immortality project he called the Common Task. So like maybe this Kaneda-Haub statistic asymptotically approaches 100%.

Supposing a starting population of 2 we can call Adam and Eve divided by 0 dead ancestors do note it started at infinity before dropping precipitously near 0 for a 202k year exponential climb to today's ~7%. Fwiw I consider such plot affirmative evidence assuming the demographic inputs are not wildly inaccurate.

We're all outliers by still being around.