Based on Wikipedia entry, Watts and Strogatz showed that average path length between two nodes in a random network is lnV/lnK, where V is the number of node, and K is the average degree.
So, ln 6.7 billion / ln (50 friends) = 5.7.
See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_separation#Research
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