The estimated world population at the time of Christ (c. A.D. 1)– 300,000,000

Estimated world population in 2025–8,238,838,000 (and counting… https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/. 
China and India each have populations exceeding 1 billion.

An estimated 50,000,000 people died in the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919.  Nearly 20 percent of the world’s population was infected/attacked by this virus. A reported 7,097,851 deaths (.1 percent of the population) resulted from the COVID-19 virus a hundred years later, while 777 million people were infected– roughly 10 percent of the world population at that time. **This results from a number of different factors–the Influenza pandemic of the twentieth century followed on the heels of WW1 and happened when the total world population was much smaller; also, the advances in medicine, communication, hygiene, etc., meant that fewer people died from the virus, more people were generally healthy and had better immune systems, and more treatments were available.

1,503– the number of people who died in the sinking of the Titanic…there were enough life vests for every passenger on board, but not enough boats were available to keep people out of the freezing waters of the Atlantic. (There were just over 700 survivors.) https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/how-many-people-died-titanic-how-many-survived/10605754002/

500,000,000 watched at least part of the World Cup last year.

Over 155,000,000 Americans voted in the 2024 presidential elections (an estimated 63.9% of eligible voters)https://www.npr.org/2024/12/27/nx-s1-5222570/2024-politics-recap

Over 60,000,000 lives were lost in World War II (Some estimates run as high as 80 million)  This includes soldiers, civilians, detainees, prisoners of war, and victims of the Holocaust.

Over 65,000,000 Americans have lost their chance at life since the Supreme Court ruling in Roe v Wade in 1973.  65,464,760 https://christianliferesources.com/2021/01/19/u-s-abortion-statistics-by-year-1973-current/
Approximately 14 million abortions occur annually worldwide https://worldpopulationreview.com/metrics/how-many-abortions-per-year-in-the-world

237– the estimated number of people who have been murdered in Chicago, Illinois, so far in 2025, down from previous years. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/04/chicago-homicides-2025/

The YouTube sensation, Baby Shark, had over 12 billion views as of October 2023. https://www.safewaters.ai/posts/how-many-views-does-baby-shark-have

48,692,183,040 — the number of water drops/teardrops it would take to fill an Olympic sized swimming pool for Baby Shark.  calculation here

70 x 7–(490)—-The number of times Jesus suggested we forgive our brother who offends us.

53– the number of words in the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:9-13 NIV)

757,514– the estimated number of words in the English Standard Version of the Bible (Old and New Testaments, without the Apocrypha).

10 — the number of Jesus’s original disciples who were martyred  (Judas hanged himself, and John died in exile on Patmos).

3,000 –the number of converts on the day of Pentecost.  From this number, the Church has spread to nearly every corner of the earth, and lives, communities, nations, and people groups have been radically transformed.

1—Lord and Savior, ruler and sustainer of all the earth, whose death and resurrection wipes away the curse of death, disease, and Sin! (See Deuteronomy 6:4 and Ephesians 4:5-13)