Are there more computers than animals on earth?

Lino Cawthorne: animals.. there are about 80% animals 20% computers

Morris Cuomo: no, obviously not.

Armando Somes: There are more animals than computers, i think.

Alexander Villas: no way. I agree that there are possibly millions of computers worldwide, but if you take into account all the creatures in both the sea, land and sky, there will be a huge ratio of animals to computers. Proof is outside. Take a handful to 2 handfuls of soil/dirt and you'll be amazed of what you will find in there, from ants to worms. If you use that as a guidance, you will soon realize that there are way more animals on this planet than computers. For example, computers can't breed and a creature gives birth every 3 seconds. Now that is a LOT of animals...Show more

Tamatha Neubaum: there are definitly more animals right now like 65%- 35% but in the next 10 years i would say there gonna be a bit closer. i dont think they will ever be more computers though. theres billion! s of animals in the world.

Arlen Decorte: UM NO.

Francisco Schonhardt: I came across this page while looking for information about whether there are more animals now than in the distant past, for some climate catastrophe calculations. There's very little on that, if anything, but the answer to your question is obvious. There are more animals. There are, very generously speaking, 2 billion computers in the world, assuming you're not talking about the computers in traffic lights and cars and rice cookers, but only about the things actually called computers by most people, including tablets, etc. http://www.howmanyarethere.net/how-many-computers-... And you say "animals", not just mammals but it's possible you mean that, so I'll figure it both ways. Even if you're just asking about humans vs. computers the answer is clearly humans since the vast majority of humans (I'm guessing 5% of computer-having humans the equivalent of maybe 15-20% having one, it's stil! l 5-6 times more humans than computers. If you add just mammal! s (roughly 5.3 billion domestic large mammals (livestock, cats and dogs) and many, many times that of wild ones (think not just of wild elephants and deer but mice and rats and rabbits)... there are many, many times more mammals than computers. As far as other animals, just take one example: there are in fact, way, way, way more ants than computers, since a couple of reasonable estimates using different methods puts the number of ants in the world at about 3-7 quadrillion (3000 trillion or more). So not only do ants all by themselves outnumber computers, they in fact OUTWEIGH computers. They even outweigh humans and computers combined--by many, many times, and almost certainly outweigh all computers, humans and human livestock and pets, combined. (but I'm not doing that calculation, sorry). So... animals, rough guess: 99.9999999999999%, computers: the rest....Show more

Hermina Ketring: Not yet no

Charissa Riley: There are way more animals. Lets say there are 3! billion computers, as a roundabout figure. That's less than half of JUST the people (people are animals). Now lets compare this to insects. On average, there are approximately 11 million insects per *acre* of land.Since there is approximately 36,794,240,000 acres on earth, that leaves approximately 404,406,640,000,000,000 insects on the planet.So the score is: Computers: Animals: > 99%edit: It's so lopsided, that statistically it's 0 percent computers and 100% animals....Show more

Ardell Luy: no. there are more ants on earth than computers and than human beings.

Ira Porietis: I am pretty sure the number animals outweigh the number computers greatly.Most likely:65% - Animals35% - ComputersOR75% - Animals25% - ComputersBUT there is a slight chance that it is 50 - 5050% - Animals50% - Computers...Show more

Alise Rutgers: maybe if they didnt have computer recyclers ;) insects arnt animals lolComputers 5 %Animals 100%Wow its prob less then that there are so m! any animals even in the ocean that we dont think about an theres not ev! en computers in some countries.

Felicitas Phildor: Consider the inhabitants of an average western suburban home. The four and a quarter human house dwellers (this is a statistically average family) are probably outnumbered by hundreds of thousands per head by their garden ants. They're also impressively outnumbered by the resident spiders, worms, wood lice, silverfish, beetles etc, and that's to say about possible bed bugs of which we shall not speak. In short, the vast, massive, landslide overwhelming majority of the animal residents of the average western surburban family home ain't human. The humans constitute a blip so minimal that it wouldn't register on even the most sensitive blip detector.Computers as near as damn it 0%.Animals as near as damn it 100%,...Show more

Rick Duchane: umm i say animals but three again every think got pc in them even cars robots and things tv and most things nawok its pc i sat

Ilana Gaster: There is OBVIOUSLY more ! animals than computers in the world. Several single species have populations greater than the number of computers, INCLUDING HUMANS.Come on, really.

Rona Espalin: No, obviously not. In the kingdom of Anamalia, or Metazoa, There are about 1,250,000 identified species of animal. This includes 1,190,200 invertebrates, among them 950,000 insects, 70,000 mollusks, 40,000 crustaceans, and 130,200 others. There are about 58,800 identified vertebrates, including 29,300 fish, 5,743 amphibians, 8,240 reptiles, 9,800 birds, and 5,416 mammals. As a comparison, almost 300,000 plant species are known.Importantly, the numbers above do not account for species which have not yet been captured or described scientifically. Scientists estimate there may be as many as 10 - 30 million unidentified insect species, many of them living in the rainforest, and up to 1 million mite species. Mites are small arthropods, a group of animals related to but not the same as insects.And remember, each s! pecies group has its own population to its self, like the Homo Sapiens ! Pop is 6.8 billion. That alone is probably more than the Computer population. As for how many computers there are, there is no definite answer, and there is no way anyone can get a practical answer to this question either. Computers are constantly manufactured, and constantly taken out of service. There are some guesses that show there could be a billion, and that the count could double to two billion in a few more years. At least for general purpose PCs. This is still so much much much less than what the animal population is....Show more

Armando Somes: no way !