An Incredible Growth of Human Population
Throughout most of human history, for thousands of years, the world population growth has been very slow. For instance, it is estimated that the world’s population grew slowly from about 2.4 million people in 10,000 BCE to 295 million in 1,000 CE [1]. Only 200 years ago there were less than one billion human beings living on earth. Since the 18th century with the advent of industrial revolution and advances in medicine, agriculture, and sanitation, the world population has increased exponentially. Around the 1830s, the world population reached one billion for the first time. It took another century for the world population to hit two billion around the 1930s. The third ...
Get Global Trends and Transformations in Culture, Business, and Technology, 2nd Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
