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Will you ever meet a million people? Maybe, after 25 years on the job. Over the course of a lifetime, it is quite possible for a single individual to meet and greet a million people. A parking attendant or a retail clerk may greet 200 people in the course of a day’s work. Someone keeping up that friendly pace as a regular job (5 days a week, 50 weeks a year) will say “hello” for the millionth time after about 25 years. They’ll never get to a billion, though--25,000 years is too long to stay at one job.
A million people in the street Imagine a million people gathered on a wide street for some popular event. Let’s make the street quite wide--100 feet. Enough room for six automobile traffic lanes and a couple of sidewalks. If we clear the road of cars and pack it instead with people in a tight crowd, we’ll need more than 11 miles of roadway to hold a million people.

A Million People

In a typical American crowd of one million people, you will find:


About 10,000 elementary and middle school teachers


About 202,000 people 14 years old or younger


The crowd would also include 2,517 hairdressers, 792 pharmacists, 1,346 clergymen or ministers


A city with a million people can be expected to have about 35 Starbucks stores


A million Americans will own about 816,000 passenger vehicles


If you follow the crowd for a typical day, 38 babies will be born, and 22 people will die