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Live a life as a chicken

EpicOdds: 1 in 67.3 billion

There are about three chickens for every person on Earth. About 26 billion chickens are alive right now. Your odds of being reborn as one are 1 in 67.

Sources: FAOSTAT live animals: about 26 billion chickens (2022).

Your life

  1. Day 1 · You hatch in an incubator. You never meet your mother.
  2. Day 2 · You are moved to a large shed with thousands of other chicks.
  3. Week 3 · You have been bred to grow fast. You are already many times your hatching weight.
  4. Week 6 · Most chickens alive today are broilers like you, raised for meat for about six weeks.

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Questions

What are the odds of being reborn as a chicken?

Odds: 1 in 67.3 billion. There are about three chickens for every person on Earth. (FAOSTAT live animals: about 26 billion chickens (2022).)

What are my odds of being reborn as a human?

About 1 in 210 billion if any animal can be drawn. There are roughly 8.2 billion people, but around 1.3 sextillion copepods, 440 quintillion soil nematodes and 10 quintillion insects. Among mammals and birds only, the odds improve to about 1 in 21.

What is the most common animal on Earth?

By head count, tiny crustaceans called copepods (about 1.3 × 10²¹, an order-of-magnitude estimate), then soil nematodes (about 4.4 × 10²⁰, van den Hoogen et al. 2019). That is why the true-odds draw almost always makes you something small.

The odds, animal by animal

Copepod Soil nematode Insect Ant Antarctic krill Honey bee Fish Wild bird Bat Wild rodent Human House sparrow Cow Dog Elephant Blue whale Giant panda