14 Things Besides Facebook With A Billion Users

Facebook announced its billionth user today. That’s a lot of people! It’s nearly half the people with internet access, and 15% of all the people that are alive at all. More people use Facebook than own dogs, or watch the Super Bowl.

To help you further comprehend the sheer scale of giga-Facebook, here’s a few other things with a billion users.

1. Television

Source: hellogiggles.com

1.4 billion households have TV, per the most recent count.

2. Cars

Source: autowalls.com

We reached a billion total cars last summer.

3. Smartphones

Source: l.yimg.com

We’ve sold about a billion smartphones. About a quarter of them were iPhones.

4. Africa

Source: probertencyclopaedia.com

1,022,234,000 people lived in Africa as of 2009.

5. Mandarin Chinese

Source: abletechtraining.com

English isn’t even close.

6. Microsoft Office

Every second, someone buys a copy of MS Office 2010.

7. Chocolate

Source: nepaconnect.com

Every day, a billion people eat chocolate.

8. Animal Flu

Source: cdn4.spiegel.de

Zoonautic diseases (bird flu, pig flu, etc.) have infected 2.2 billion people worldwide.

9. Hunger

Source: firstgenamerican.com

According to Oxfam, a billion people currently go hungry across the world.

10. Fish

Source: 1.bp.blogspot.com

One billion people are dependent on fish as a principal source of protein.

11. Catholicism

Image by Osservatore Romano / AP

1.166 billion faithful as of 2008.

12. The Olympics

Image by Jorge Silva / Reuters

A billion people watched the London Olympics’ Opening Ceremony.

13. Cigarettes

Source: archives.jrn.columbia.edu

The World Health Organization counts a billion smokers.

14. Death

Source: doctormacro.com

Roughly 100 billion people have died over the course of human history. Facebook isn’t there yet, but they’re on their way.