BBC's Awesome Human Counting App

Find out just how many humans were on the planet when you were brought into this terrible, cruel world.

If you've ever wanted a good piece of evidence to support the case that public broadcasters are a great benefit to society (and by that we mean diverting attention for a few brief seconds), look no further than BBC. Now that our species has hit the seven billion mark, the Beeb has launched a cool little app that let's you find out just how many people were on the planet the day you were born, and how many human beings had lived before the special little snowflake that is you came along.

Anyhow, we're the 79,807,360,524th human being to have ever existed. What's your number?