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UN estimates (as of 2017) for world population by continent in 2000 and in 2050 (pie chart size to scale) Asia Africa Europe Central/South America North America Oceania. Population estimates for world regions based on Maddison (2007), [29] in millions. The row showing total world population includes the average growth rate per year over the ...
This article lists historical urban community sizes based on the estimated populations of selected human settlements from 7000 BC – AD 1875, organized by archaeological periods. Many of the figures are uncertain, especially in ancient times. Estimating population sizes before censuses were conducted is a difficult task. [1]
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.
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.
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.
The United Nations and the US Census Bureau both give different estimates – according to the UN, the world population reached seven billion in late 2011, [111] while the USCB asserted that this occurred in March 2012. [121] Since 1951, the UN has issued multiple projections of future world population, based on different assumptions.
Possible ways of measuring size include area, population, economy, and power. ... 1200 [10] or 1150 [9 ... the two most populous empires' combined share of the world ...
1 World population estimates (1 C.E.) and growth rates (till 1000 C.E.) with 20 current countries 2 Alternative Estimates of the Regional Components of World Population, 1 C.E. (in thousands) 3 See also