Cyuh, it's a sad state of affairs when you have to get your fat fingers off their comfy finger chairs and do the tapping and the researching yourself, innit? By my reckoning, using the approximate figures I found on the international webnet, everyone in the world gets:
24,716 sq metres of land each
ie: a strip of land 1 km long, 24 metres wide, with a slightly shorter strip on the side. See below for maths and tell me if I've cocked up anywhere, please:
Population: 6,000,000,000 (more, if you believe that this figure was achieved back in 1999, but it's a nice round number).
Total land: 148,300,000 sq km
or: 148,300,000,000,000 sq metres
Total sea: 361,800,000 sq km
or: 361,800,000,000,000 sq metres
148,300 / 6 = 24,716 sq metres each of land
361,800 / 6 = 60,300 sq metres of sea each
Total weight: 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 metric tons
6,000,000,000,000 / 6 = 1,000,000,000,000 metric tons of STUFF each
Incidentally -
Total gold: 21,000,000,000,000 tons
21 / 6 = 3.5 tons each
Does anyone know of a site that will give me estimated weights for all the key metals and minerals etc? |
