72% of all the biographies in English Wikipedia are about people who lived in the 20th century (1901-2000). 99.66% lived in the 2nd millennium (1001-2000).
The most populated categories are 1980s years, with about 9,000+ biographies each one.
If we use that level of notability and completeness, from year 1 to year 2000 we would have 9000 * 2000 = 18,000,000 biographies. Currently we have only 728,971 biographies (4.05% of 18M).
Summary
editThe biographies numbers are the births categories sum for that date range.
| Years | Biographies (%) | World population[1] est. (in millions) | Notability (bios per million) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| lower | upper | max | min | ||
| 1–100 | 133 (0.02%) | 170 | 400 | 0.78 | 0.33 |
| 101–200 | 179 (0.02%) | ||||
| 201–300 | 188 (0.03%) | 190 | 256 | 0.99 | 0.73 |
| 301–400 | 212 (0.03%) | ||||
| 401–500 | 192 (0.03%) | 190 | 206 | 1.01 | 0.93 |
| 501–600 | 291 (0.04%) | 190 | 206 | 1.53 | 1.41 |
| 601–700 | 318 (0.04%) | 200 | 206 | 1.59 | 1.54 |
| 701–800 | 344 (0.05%) | 207 | 210 | 1.66 | 1.64 |
| 801–900 | 336 (0.05%) | 220 | 224 | 1.53 | 1.5 |
| 901–1000 | 454 (0.06%) | 226 | 240 | 2.01 | 1.89 |
| 1001–1100 | 523 (0.07%) | 254 | 345 | 2.06 | 1.52 |
| 1101–1200 | 928 (0.13%) | 301 | 320 | 3.08 | 2.9 |
| 1201–1300 | 1357 (0.19%) | 360 | 450 | 3.77 | 3.02 |
| 1301–1400 | 1586 (0.22%) | 360 | 443 | 4.41 | 3.58 |
| 1401–1500 | 2550 (0.35%) | 350 | 374 | 7.29 | 6.82 |
| 1501–1600 | 7188 (0.99%) | 425 | 540 | 16.91 | 13.31 |
| 1601–1700 | 10982 (1.51%) | 470 | 579 | 23.37 | 18.97 |
| 1701–1800 | 29929 (4.11%) | 600 | 961 | 49.88 | 31.14 |
| 1801–1900 | 143359 (19.67%) | 813 | 1402 | 176.33 | 102.25 |
| 1901–2000 | 527922 (72.42%) | 1550 | 6115 | 340.59 | 86.33 |
| Total = 728,971 (100%) | |||||
References
edit- ^ http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html - Estimations - If there are more than one estimation (lower and upper) inside a century, I get the min and the max respectively