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Ant Weight Calculator

How many ants would it take to lift your weight? Find out with this fun calculator and learn surprising facts about the strength of ants.

Weighs ~1-2 mg, lifts 10 to 50 times its weight

You would need approximately
2.3 million
common ant ants to lift 70 kg

Visual equivalences

Football stadiums
That would fill approximately 65.4% of a stadium at 500 ants per m²
Ant colonies
You would need approximately 8 complete colonies (300,000 ants each)
Total weight of the ants
These ants would weigh 3.50 kg together (much less than what they lift!)

Calculation detail

Ant weight: 1.5 mg

Lifting force: 20× its weight = 30 mg = 0.0300 g

Number = 70 kg ÷ 0.0300 g = 2.3 million ants

Did you know?

If all the ants in the world were placed on a scale, they would weigh as much as all humans combined.