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The number above is an estimate of the number of people on Earth that are older than you1. They are, in a sense, ahead of you in the queue.
It ticks down in real time, at the rate at which those people are statistically expected to die, based on global age-specific mortality2. Death arrives in clusters and quiet stretches, never evenly. Expect pauses and the occasional grim flurry.