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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 14 points 4 hours ago

No chance of being born in New Zealand I see

[-] BotsRuinedEverything@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Technically Antarctica isn't 0. There's a civilian colony and at least one baby has been born there.

[-] Soulg@ani.social 6 points 2 hours ago

Eh it rounds down at that point

[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 1 points 1 hour ago

11 people were born there. That's a ~0.00000000133649348822 chance. Small but not impossible.

[-] nevetsg@aussie.zone 8 points 5 hours ago

So me being born in Australia was like getting a mythic prize in a loot crate.

[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 6 points 6 hours ago

How about chances of being born in the ocean, or even on this planet?

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

Look, if you had one shot or one opportunity

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social 17 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

With all the scientists and cruises that tour around Antarctica, I am not convinced that the chances of being born there are a flat 0. It might be less than 1% but no way it's 0.

At least 11 babies have been born in Antarctica.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

0.0000001375%!

(This is based solely on roughly how many people exist, not birth rates, because I ain't doing the real math for what is ultimately a rounding error)

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago

Do you come from a land of plenty?

Statistically, no.

[-] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 9 points 10 hours ago

Y'all probably already knew about the Valeriepieris circle, I guess.

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago

I did, but now I also know about Danny Quah's 2015 circle :)

[-] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 16 hours ago

I've already been born so my odds should be updated.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 9 points 15 hours ago

This is actually percent of each population that believes in reincarnation

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[-] mercano@lemmy.world 37 points 14 hours ago

New Zealand’s gone missing again, I’m assuming it’s lumped in with Australia.

[-] Gorge@lemm.ee 7 points 10 hours ago

New Zealand is in stealth mode. We keep it off the maps so trump doesn't know it exists and leaves it alone

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 18 points 13 hours ago

No it means there is zero percent chance of New Zealand

[-] Zachariah@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago
[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 6 points 10 hours ago

It's crazy they did include a bit of Russia near Alaska and also bothered to add the Galapagos (where nobody lives) but omitted NZ

[-] teft@lemmy.world 58 points 16 hours ago

It’s not zero for Antarctica, just nearly zero. 11 people have been born in Antarctica. Mostly argentinians but also a couple chileans.

[-] zelgo@lemmy.world 22 points 16 hours ago

Okay and that would still be less than 0.00% which is the significant figures on the chart. They can't just put 0.01.because 11 out 8 billion people were born there.

[-] huppakee@feddit.nl 4 points 10 hours ago

It's a good reminder though that 0.0% doesn't have to equal 0

[-] 5oap10116@lemmy.world 17 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They could have put <0.01 but either way there's no real society/culture there to bwgin with. I personally wouldn't have even included it on the map.

I will say if they were included on education stats, they would probably top all global charts.

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[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 23 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Remember everyone: 100.00% does not mean all, and 0.00% does not mean none, just like 50.00% does not mean exactly half. They all are accurate to 0.005% points.

[-] match@pawb.social 17 points 12 hours ago

So there's a chance I'll be born in Antarctica?

[-] matti@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 hours ago

You, no. Some other guy, maybe.

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[-] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 8 hours ago

Small chance you still might, I'll cross my fingers for you

[-] match@pawb.social 2 points 7 hours ago

thanks! I'm working on it

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 12 hours ago

IIRC Argentina facilitated a few births on the outlying islands to make a point. Usually kids are avoided in such a harsh and precarious place, though.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 hours ago

Yes, there was a chance 'you' could have been born in Antarctica.

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

What time frame does this represent?

Births in 2025 might be majority subsaharan Africa.

[-] TechLich@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

It would be really interesting to see chances of being born across all time. Like what is the probability of being born here and now vs. somewhere else in the past or the future.

You would have to make some predictions based on population growth and maybe model a few different possible apocalypses (average species lifetime/meteor probabilities/nuclear doomsday/climate disaster etc.) but it would be a fun model to play with.

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[-] HenriVolney@sh.itjust.works 4 points 12 hours ago

Challenge accepted! Proceeds to breed in Antarctica

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 10 points 16 hours ago

I misread this as "Chances of being born in each Connecticut" and while I know humans are fond of naming places after existing places, I'd be surprised if every continent has a place officially named Connecticut

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[-] altphoto@lemmy.today -1 points 7 hours ago

But if you do it per country things would look different. The US would have the highest percentage of people from all around the planet while all the other countries would have like 0.0001% from other places. I just made that number up, but yeah, you won't find diversity as you find it here in the USA.... Let's cherish that, let's keep our melting pot alive and well!

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

The US isn't even in the top 20 of proportion of people living there born abroad. They do however have the highest total number of immigrants.

Data compiled from a UN source

[-] Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 10 points 16 hours ago

Penguins: well, we're going extinct then...

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