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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 percentage of population living in poverty

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    World Bank Income group (2024) Poverty headcount ratio at national poverty lines Year % of population Aruba: Latin America & Caribbean High income N/A Afghanistan: South Asia Low income N/A Angola: Sub-Saharan Africa Lower middle income 32.3% 2018 Albania: Europe & Central Asia Upper middle income 22.0% 2020 Andorra: Europe & Central Asia

  4. File:World-Population-1800-2100.svg - Wikipedia

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    English: World population chart, from 1800 to 2100 — showing both estimates and actual population counts. World population estimates from 1800 to 2100, based on: United Nations projections (in 2010) — "high" (colored red), "medium" (orange), and "low" (green) U.S. Census Bureau (historical estimates) — (colored black). Actual recorded ...

  5. World population - Wikipedia

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    The PRB puts the figure at 117 billion as of 2020, estimating that the current world population is 6.7% of all the humans who have lived since 190,000 BCE. [147] Haub (1995) prepared another figure, updated in 2002 and 2011; the 2011 figure was approximately 107 billion.

  6. Extreme poverty - Wikipedia

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    Number of people living in extreme poverty from 1820 to 2015. Population not in extreme poverty Population living in extreme poverty Total population living in extreme poverty, by world region 1990 to 2015. Latin America and Caribbean East Asia and Pacific Islands South Asia Middle East and North Africa Europe and Central Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Other high income countries The number of people ...

  7. List of countries by past and projected future population

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    Population of the present-day top seven most-populous countries, 1800 to 2100. Future projections are based on the 2024 UN's medium-fertility scenario. Chart created by Our World In Data in 2024. The following is a list of countries by past and projected future population. This assumes that countries stay constant in the unforeseeable future ...

  8. Poverty - Wikipedia

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    This is the case since the world population was just little more than 1 billion in 1820 and the majority (84% to 94%) [67] of the world population was living in poverty. According to one study, the percentage of the world population in hunger and poverty fell in absolute percentage terms from 50% in 1950 to 30% in 1970. [ 68 ]

  9. Demographics of the world - Wikipedia

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    The current world population growth is approximately 1.09%. [7] People under 15 years of age made up over a quarter of the world population (25.18%), and people age 65 and over made up nearly ten percent (9.69%) in 2021. [7] The world population more than tripled during the 20th century from about 1.65 billion in 1900 to 5.97 billion in 1999.