Human Population Through Time

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It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on Earth’s resources, even as we approach 11 billion?

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Population Connection

World Population | An Interactive Experience

UN World Population Prospects
https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/

Real-time population counter
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

NASA EarthData
https://earthdata.nasa.gov

NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center
http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu

Video credits:

Writer/Producer
AMNH/L. Moustakerski

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AMNH/S. Krasinski

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AMNH/J. Morfoot

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AMNH/S. Macey
AMNH/J. Zichello
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation

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PhyloPic
David Hillis, Derrick Zwickl, and Robin Gutell, University of Texas

World Population used courtesy of Population Connection, ©2015

Other Population Data Sources
Population Connection
United Nations, “World Population Prospects: 2015 Revision”
US Census Bureau

Maps and Event Sources
Encyclopedia Britannica
Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center
NASA
NOAA
Needham, J. Science and Civilisation in China
TimeMaps
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database

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  1. i've seen several Recent European articles that says that the entire western human race can be traced back to the Indian subcontinent, which means that the Ancestors of the western human race were all from Indian subcontinent and of the Eastern human race were mostly from Indian-Tibetan-Chinese land. Indian Ancient civilization was the most advanced and prosperous land, and some went towards the rest of the world bcz some of them were travelers, some faced criminal charges and hence thrown out of the kingdoms and some in the search of better cultivating land and easy access to water..

  2. Look up the growth graf of bacteria that are put in a new petri dish with plenty of room and food, the graf is the same except when allowed to continue the environment in the petri dish, due to overpopulation and waste, crashes down to maybe 15% of it's peak and then continues on in a more sustained way. There is no reason to believe that the human population would not follow this same pattern in an environment with plenty of space and food. It's just the space is a lot larger and the time span is extended out, but the result will be the same. That is if we don't have a huge nuclear war that accomplishes the same result.

    Also I think there was a moment about 70,000 years ago that something caused the human population to drop to maybe 5,000 people. The human race survived by only the merest of threads.

  3. Are you out of your mind? That is a lie becase we don't have records since recent times – who knows the populations 500 1000 3000 200.000 years ago Nobody! We have a record for ancient Greece bC for 6.000.000 people How about China and India and North and South America – they say that during colonization killed about 300.000 people in USA – you know nothing of ancient world population and civilizations + Overpopulation is a myth the planet is empty! and can take 10+ times more people than today

  4. yeesh, I can't believe Australia had is represented as having no population until European settlement! Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are one of the world's oldest civilisations, in fact, they are literally the world's oldest surviving civilisation. Estimates of the pre-colonial Aboriginal population are between 750,000 and 3 million. I wonder how many other significant groups aren't represented in this video.

  5. Depopulation by the elites is a farcity. The planet can actually support 12 billion people without their problems and their solutions. If we had a reworked system without capitalism, and all but technologies released to the public, we would face a shock then revolution then utopia.

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