Years | Population | Number of Great Ideas | Years/idea/ million people |
| 1,000,000 | 200,000 | 4 | 50,000 |
| 470,000 | 2,000,000 | 10 | 94,000 |
| 20,000 | 4,000,000 | 5 | 16,000 |
| 10,000 | 125,000,000 | 12 | 104,000 |
| 800 | 600,000,000 | 9 | 53,000 |
| 130 | 1,500,000,000 | 10 | 19,500 |
| 42 | 3,000,000,000 | 4 | 31,500 |
| 24 | 5,000,000,000 | 1 | 120,000 |