How many ants are there on Earth?

Science brutal Data from 2022

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Answer in ants. Shorthand like 9m or 1.2bn works.

The answer

20,000,000,000,000,000 ants

Roughly 20,000T.

A 2022 study estimated 20 quadrillion ants — about 2.5 million for every human. Their combined dry weight exceeds that of all wild birds and mammals put together.

Where this number comes from

Source Schultheiss et al., PNAS
Figure refers to 2022
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Unit ants

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