It’s equally possible that there was more than one or even a day where only people were born and no one died.

There was a low point where only about 2,000 humans were estimated to be alive. Certainly you couldn’t have had someone dying everyday then

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    Yes, humanity was very close to extinction and sub 10,000 in population at one point. We can tell from mitochondrial DNA.