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  2. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    The table starts counting approximately 10,000 years before present, or around 8,000 BC, during the middle Greenlandian, about 1,700 years after the end of the Younger Dryas and 1,800 years before the 8.2-kiloyear event. From the beginning of the early modern period until the 20th century, world population has been characterized by a rapid growth.

  3. List of countries by population in 1000 - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by population in 1000. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics , Volume 1, pages 12 to 14, which cover population figures from the year 1000 divided into modern borders.

  4. List of population milestones by country - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of population milestones by country (and year first reached). Only existing countries are included, not former countries. Only existing countries are included, not former countries. 20 million milestone

  5. World population milestones - Wikipedia

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    World population milestones went unnoticed until the 20th century, ... 14 years after 8 billion, and 10 billion by 2054–2071, 17 years after 9 billion; however ...

  6. List of largest cities throughout history - Wikipedia

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    This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.

  7. Demographic history - Wikipedia

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    Population of the world from 10,000 BC to 2000 AD (logarithmic scale) Estimating the ancestral population of anatomically modern humans, Colin McEvedy and Richard Jones chose bounds based on gorilla and chimpanzee population densities of 1/km 2 and 3-4/km 2, [1] respectively, then assumed that as Homo erectus moved up the food chain, they lost an order of magnitude in density.

  8. List of countries by population in 1500 - Wikipedia

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    World map from 1565 World map depicting 1555–1556. This is a list of countries by population in 1500. Estimate numbers are from the beginning of the year, and exact population figures are for countries that held a census on various dates in that year.

  9. World population - Wikipedia

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    In just one hundred years, the population of Brazil decupled (x10), from about 17 million in 1900, or about 1% of the world population in that year, to about 176 million in 2000, or almost 3% of the global population in the very early 21st century. Mexico's population grew from 13.6 million in 1900 to about 112 million in 2010.