we're 9 billion people
Either you're a time traveller, you like heavy rounding up or you know something the easily accessible parts of the Internet don't. Averaging the first three sites* that turned up in a search puts it around 8.25 billion at the time of writing
* Worldometer ~8.26b, The World Counts ~8.11b and Country Meters ~8.34b
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
\5. This is a reflection of the tendency of this particular social group (chavs? Not a Brit spotting expert) to spot and act immediately in response to emergencies rather than ignoring it, waiting for others to act, or pulling out a phone to film
\6. Something else we haven’t thought of