Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia Estimates of historical world population Comparison of humans living today with all previous generations This article lists current estimates of the world population in history In summary, estimates for the progression of world population since the Late Middle Ages are in the following ranges:
Historical Estimates of World Population - Census. gov Population, Selected Papers, December, table 2 Durand, John D , 1974, "Historical Estimates of World Population: An Evaluation," University of Pennsylvania, Population Center, Analytical and Technical Reports, Number 10, table 2 Haub, Carl, 1995, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" Population Today, February, p 5
How many people on earth? World population 1800-1938 - CEPR Historical demography is important for research, but data have been limited to the most advanced countries This column introduces newly estimated world populations for all polities from 1800 to 1938 Baseline estimates suggest the world population grew by 123%, from just above 1 billion in 1800 to 2 2 billion in 1938 Total population grew in almost all polities but the increase differed
The world in 1915 - Langholm 1915 The world’s population was 1 8 billion (it is now over eight billion) Much of the world’s territory was controlled by empires and colonial powers War had broken out in July 1914 after Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, was assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia, by a Serbian revolutionary Cars were becoming widely available […]
What Was Earths Population Through History? — History Facts Today, it’s hard to imagine our entire planet populated by fewer people than we currently find in a single major city And tens of thousands of years ago, it would have been shocking — and quite possibly terrifying — to imagine a world in which humans had built settlements as vast and crowded as those that exist today Population growth has, for the most part, been a long and steady
Historical World Population Data - Johnstons Archive The following historical population figures are compiled from multiple sources They are not of uniform reliability or methodology and may not represent uniform time series They are presented as illustrative of the development of global demographic trends Sources are given at the end of the page