If Earth's Entire Population Lived in a Single Skyscraper

09/12/2025 12 min
If Earth's Entire Population Lived in a Single Skyscraper

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With nearly eight billion people on the planet, things can feel pretty crowded. Let’s imagine housing every single person on Earth in one giant skyscraper. A building big enough for all eight billion of us doesn't exist yet, so we'd have to build it from the ground up.
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