Shh ... I'm counting

How big is 116.4 billion things ?

  • Equivalent to 116.4 billion
  • More or less ...

  • Smaller than: Number of neurons in an African elephant's brain (257bn ) ...
  • Bigger than: Number of humans who have ever lived (108bn ) ...
  • And equivalent to ...

  • One for every 340 bacteria in the human body (39trillion ) ...
  • One for every 8,600 synapses in the human brain (1quadrillion ) ...
  • One for every 30 fish in the sea (3.5trillion ) ...
  • 0.39 for every star in our galaxy (300bn ) ...
  • 14 for every person in the world (8.1billion) ...
  • 82 for every person in China (1.413billion) ...
  • 97 for every car in the world (1.2bn ) ...
  • 4,660 for every book in the British Library (25million ) ...
  • 343 for every person in the USA (340million) ...
  • 1,708 for every person in the UK (68.1million) ...
  • 2,007 for every Horse in the world (58 million individuals) ...
  • 529,000 for every grain of sugar in a cup (220,000 ) ...
  • 970,000 for every strand on a head of hair (120,000 ) ...
  • And, neatly, although approximately ...

  • is 500 x Pop. of Nigeria (2023) (230.8million)...