How Much Will You Poop During Your Lifetime?

Everybody poops.

From your favorite celebrity to the queen of England pooping is the great equalizer.  It’s a fact of life, but you might be surprised to learn just how much #2 we produce over the span of our lifetime.

The amount of poop can vary greatly depending on body weight, age, diet, exercise, etc. Human feces is about 70% solid and 30% fluids.  On average both men and women evacuate their bowels once a day with an average weight of 14 to 17 ounces.

Over the course of a week a person poops about 6 lbs.  So in a year a single individual produces 320 pound of poop….that’s alot of crap!

The average lifespan for a man is 76 and is 81 for women.  That means a man living to 76 would poop 24,320 pounds in his lifetime and a women living to age 81 would produce 25,920 pounds of poop.  That’s as heavy as 5 and a half adult rhinos!

To put this in more perspective this is also as heavy as

• 7 cars
• 20 polar bears
• 17 cows
• 80 panda bears
• 30 grand pianos
• 45 pigs
• 1500 bowling balls
• 20,000 basketballs

The current world population is 7.6 billion people and in total we generate an estimated 640 billion pounds of poop each year.

Here’s a scary thought.  About 4.5 billion people don’t have access to toilets.  As a result over 200 million tons of human excrement goes untreated directly into lakes, rivers and the ocean each year.

Poop in a Lifetime