Human Population Through Time (Updated in 2023)
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- Опубліковано 12 сер 2023
- It took most of human history for our population to reach 1 billion-and just over 200 years to reach 8 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on Earth’s resources, even as we approach 10 billion?
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I felt like I was experiencing an extremely unsafe level of radiation exposure
my gieger counter wont stop clicking
fairly proportional to the average human radiation exposure over time, since more people = more radiation
i mean you were looking at a screen so whos to say whats safe and what isnt.
@@megaflux7144You're kidding right?
@@cessnacitation-x no, its really a thing. theres radiation all around us all the time, whos to say how much is really safe?
I remember being a kid in the early 2000s and hearing that there were only 6 billion people on the earth. Crazy how fast it can go
When I was a kid in the 2010s, I liked reading books. From there I know the world population is 7 billion. It was unexpected that we could reach 8 billion in 2023, this fast.
@@user-xq5yq3mn2cThey used to tell us the world population would reach 8B by 2050. I was shocked when it happened 27 years earlier lol.
@@ahmadgilani6400 in the 2010s I read it would reach 8 billion in 2020, yeah prob was accurate but something unexpected came up
3.5 billion when I was born 1950,It will like triple before I go ,,It is exponential now,
Don’t worry, it’s expected to peak around 9-11 billion before falling again in 2100.
I find it interesting that in only 6/7 years, the predictions for the world population during the next century have changed so much, from peaking at over 11 billion to some people predicting peaks at under 10 billion, really shows us how much things can change in the world of demographics
Within 10% seems fairly close for projections out 75+ years.
Almost like people at the top have a plan of some kind.
Imagine those predictions, we must be controlled to some degree;p
@@53strat55 almost everywhere in the world is under control. The only major problem is Africa. Go look at the stats.
@@franzschubertv2874 China is going to control Africa. Why do you think there is war in eastern europe?
We humans haven't actually witnessed any large continental drift. Those timelines, distances and numbers are really hard to fully grasp. Thank you very much!
Australia is the fastest moving landmass, and in the time it has been inhabited by humans (65 000 years) it has moved north almost 4.5 kilometers!
@@nazmanaebbbz Thank you! But would our forebears have noticed - except for earthquakes maybe?
@@susanne5803 nope
We witnessed the end of the ice age. Sea levels rose 300 feet in less than 100 years. They didn't say anything about that event, that almost wiped out humans on earth. Why didn't they?
It's important to understand that the population is lowering in some countries and exploding in others.
The only reason in developed countries the population is still rising is due to immigration.
Human population has more than doubled in my lifetime. Crazy to think about.
Around 1950, when David Attenborough began his broadcasting career, there were around 2.53 billion people on Earth. If the 8 billion claimed in this video is accurate, that's a tripling of the human population in a little over 70 years.
Things are happening now
@@kevinbwtauer4190 oh its happening
My mums just died at 99. In her lifetime it quadrupled. The planet cant support this and we all have a good quality life.
@@user-uk8tl3xy9e yup
It is hard to believe that we have 8 billion individuals on Planet Earth...that is mind blowing!! 😳🤯
In 1972 there were 3 billion people. Listen to the song by The Archies, Summer prayer for peace.
They estimate there have been 100 billion people who ever died on earth, plus the 8 billion here now = 108 billion people have walked on earth. You can stand all 8 billion people in military formation and they would fit inside Los Angeles city limits, I've heard.
@@AndrewGrey22
RE: "You can stand all 8 billion people in military formation and they would fit inside Los Angeles city limits, I've heard."
Well, let's see if that's true.
1 sq mi = 27,878,400 sq ft
Area of Los Angeles County = 4,753 sq mi = 132,506,035,200 sq ft
8,000,000,000 people on the planet
132,506,035,200 sq ft / 8,000,000,000 people = 16.563 sq ft per person
True!
@@AndrewGrey22 I don't know how "military formation" is defined, but if every person occupies 1 square meter (10.8 sq ft) 8 billion ppl easily fit inside Los Angeles COUNTY (4.085 sq miles) + an extra 2.5 billion people.
When I went to primary school I was told we were 6 billion. 2 billion more humans in 30 years, counting all the ones we have lost is just an absurd number, damn.
humans kill more animals in a week than the total number of humans throughout history.
imagine being brought into existence just because someone wants to kill you and refuses to eat vegetables.
What that means is there is more than 2 billion people who are younger than you
In the middle ages the average life expectancy was 10-12 years, meaning most humans never made it past childhood. Always good to remind ourselves to be grateful to live in a time of relative prosperity and health.
@@JohnSmith-cb6qx The life expectancy was 30-40, what the hell are you talking about?
@@JohnSmith-cb6qx it's a complete nonsense, there are lots of videos and articles on that topic
I've been using this magnificent video in my social studies classes, and I really appreciate you've updated it. Thank you so so much!
Glad it was helpful!
Really? So you're teaching your social studies class that white people were the only ones to ever own slaves? Because that's what this video is claiming. Maybe you should teach your class factual history, not woke propaganda.
@@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Genesis 1:28
@@marcellakramer5871полный бред сивой кобылы.
И я рад, что ты не поймешь смысла этого фразеологизма НИКОГДА 🤣
@@ToxicDany "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" Psalm 14:1
[Pointing at the screen when it gets to today] There I am, THERE I AM!
👥
Im just picturing the decaprio meme 😂😂
@@qwertycoupe yeah, and vid clips lol Great movie 🍿
It's important to understand that the population is lowering in some countries and exploding in others.
The only reason in developed countries the population is still rising is due to immigration.
🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant comment
The 20th century was insane--the population nearly *quadrupled* in a single century (from 1.6B to 6.1B).
Compare that to, say, 300-1300 AD, when it took a whole millennium for the human population to double.
It's just like cell Devision ,
If a cell is dividing for 60 minutes
Than last minute growth is equal to 59 minutes
When I was a sophomore in college, world population topped 4 billion for the first time. I'm not all that old now (compared to your typical redwood tree). It's taken about 40 years to double to near 8 billion.
Declining birth rates across Europe, Canada, US, Japan, and China are at the tipping point of an avalanche of population distribution changes.
In a way it will all come down to a decades old question:
"Today it's oil. Tomorrow it will be water. What lengths will a government go to to make sure it has enough?"
A hint may be in the excellent 1975 film, "3 Days of the Condor". Also worth watching for the cutting edge technology in use in the film.
wait what
WHY NOT SOUTH KOREA AVERAGE FERTILITY IS 0.7 AND IS GOING DOWN UNIMAGINALLY FAST
the birth rates are only dropping in the usa and 3th world country`s, not europe or asia.
in europe and asia the birth rates are increasing for over 30 years now. real datas are prove of that, not that stupid goverment datas that want you too panic about it.
i life in germany and in the last 3 years the population has increased over 4 million, too now almost 90 million. and that only in 3 years, and it shows that the birthrates are going up, the population in the usa and most 3th world country`s is declining in the same span of time.
i have no datas about australia but it is the same like in europe or asia i think.
in africa there are no correct datas available because thes country`s there are in an constant war with themselves or other nations invading them. but it is estimated that the population there is the same, sometimes goes up sometimes down no increase or decline imensly.
this coment is just a showing of statistics nothing more nothing less, and it is not intended too insult anyone. these are only the available numbers with the estimated black numbers added that can`t be count officialy.
black numbers mean : birth and death numbers that can`t be seen in official statistics because the people are not official listed in a country. every country in the world has them, they are at most 5 - 15 % on top of the official numbers of population of an country.
fertility rates are very high in poor countries and there are many poor countries in the world unlike developed ones. some people from these countries don't have any education about sex let alone protection.
@@alexspader The average person will be african or african mixed in the near future. European/asian phenotypes will slowly disappear as their birth rates continue to plummet.
I cannot believe we’re actually at 8 billion by now. The last time I checked it was around 7.8 billion.
human is viruses for earth
We reached about 3.5 billion about 1970. It took more than 10,000 years to get there. Now we have more than doubled again in only 50 years. I submit, that this growth trajectory is unsustainable.
Boris Johnson’s been at it again.
I wasn't thinking about it, but yeah when I was a teen it was 7 billion. Dang
More like 8.3B, these estimation models are very outdated.
It always occurred to me that the discovery and mass production of penicillin has to be a huge factor in the world’s growth population. About 1942.
It makes more sense as a milestone than World War II.
Anyhow the video it’s very nice.
Thanks
The Green Revolution was what allowed us to produce so much food to sustain such a large population
I’ve taken penicillin everyday for over 20 years and I’m 34. I have no spleen and had cancer so that is on of my many pills because it boosts my immune system a bit
Yes it would have been interesting to see a (death vs birth) or (average expected age) graph here.
@@corallaroc2946 In Europe, something like 40-50% of children died before their fifth birthday right into the first half of the 19th century. The development of modern medicine in that century and into the 20th is the single biggest driver of population growth, especially in what used to be termed the third world. Growing prosperity, declining infant mortality (and emancipation of women) in 'the west' acted as an anchor, hence declining birth rates in Europe, Japan and elsewhere.
@@ShanghaiRooster Thanks for your response. :-)
I love seeing these types of videos! They're beautifully done and so educational, I'm nearly in tears, thank you for this video, and the previous one, which I also watched and loved!
yeah in tears because we suck and we are everywhere
@@mato4334 that also
Its sad to see man thriving as a species? Man you young people today have been completely brainwashed by Marxism and climate religion.
Nearly in tears? Man up.
It's really great that you updated this! I really liked the last one but the projections have changed drastically!
I visualized more in this infographic than if read a whole article, new generations are lucky to have this level of sophistication.
It's amazing how far we've come in just a span of 200 years
Sociedade humana egipiciá
Thank you so much!! I loved the old video so much i have watched it regularly a lot of times!! Cool to see an update!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Brilliant visualization, nicely done. Thank you!
It is curious how the settlement of America occurred, so far the oldest settlement found is in Chile, far to the south, it is called Monte Verde and dates from 14,000 B.C., scientists have not found an older settlement in Canada or the United States, it is now believed that possibly they first sailed along the coast to settle well south and did not enter the continent.
The oldest verified sign of humans in the Americas was from 21,000 years ago from footprints found at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico a few ago.
Perhaps they were from islands in the South Pacific? Blown by 'Roaring 40's' trade winds or El Nino storms landward to South America? But they must've had males and females on board plus the means of survival in an uninhabited land?
Or evidence of settlements along the coasts were lost with sea level rise during the inter-glaciation period we're now in.
@@franceshorton918 No, the Pacific was peopled quite recently, within the past few thousand years and within the past thousand for some parts. Its pretty unlikely that they came through that route.
Ansence of evidence is not evidence of absence
Great way of presenting the numbers. Some labels that could have been included are one for the Inca Empire in South America when it was at its peak, one noting the "indigenous population steep decline due to European diseases" in the Americas during the 1500s, and one noting the introduction of modern medicine.
They mention modern medicine in the "industrial revolution" label. That same label could have specifically mentioned the isolation of nitrogen, which massively increased our food production
I’d like to see the graphs of atmospheric CO2 and average global temperatures running alongside. The population might be peaking but these other parameters just keep rising.
@@Tailspin80 Yeah, I doubt that we'll make it to 10B people now. We messed up the environment badly enough that harvests will probably be impacted negatively and that we'll lose huge chunks of human habitat and arable land.
@@wandererstraining There was always going to be a peak population. It happens in nature when food supplies are abundant and there no predators. It’s usually followed by a rapid decline as something gives way. It is very unusual for a rapid rise to be followed by a long plateau, but let’s hope the normal rules don’t apply to us.
Firstly because numbers never lie ;) ppl who made up the numbers do. How would they know what was the earth's population prior to all the continents were discovered? How many lived in the gigantic forests of south america, the jungles of asia, china, indonesia? I imagine what a census would have looked like up until the 19th century in the african continent? How reliable would they have been? Secondly Why do we trust any information that is arriving at us through official channels when we always have a suspicion or we know for a fact they have an agenda, they lie and the facts are distorted to fit the plan? Whose plan? The billionare's plan. I smell population reduction propaganda.
crazy to think there are more people on the internet than have been alive for most of human history
Thank you so much, as a kid I watched that video over an over and seeing a second version brings me memories
Just curious, what apps/ software/ websites have helped you make this animations in your lovely video :)
Paint
lol@@polaris1985
Well done. I would only argue the lack of population numbers in the America's in the timeline. We are constantly discovering more and more evidence of habitation throughout the millenia in the America's. I love the closing data/graphics.
Yeah, due to European diseases wiping out vast numbers of Native Americans before they were contacted, we don't have good census numbers. I imagine there should have been a higher number then a drop or leveling off of world population around 1600 or so, just like there was a drop with the Black Death in the 1200s.
Was wondering that myself
The video showed at least 7 million people already in the Americas at year 1.
True enough but it's been difficult to find historical records of Mesoamerica and how many people were on both continents by the time the European colonizers arrived. Unfortunately they didn't exactly keep records of how many Indigenous Americans died upon initial contact so we can only estimate.
Habitation, yes -- but that doesn't mean there hundreds of millions of them or anything like that.
Bravo! That's a well made video, thank you for posting it! 👏👏
such a fascinating video. thanks for putting it together and for sharing it with us.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Whole of India is yellow in the last frame😂
Sus, they started doing that very fast 💀
Sad thing is they’re all extremely poor living in slums. Their average salary is like $2 a day
@@tylerclayton6081 man pulling information from his qss
they must not believe in birth control of anykind
@@tylerclayton6081situation is changing and your data isn't true
Please refresh
India is a land of diversity
Excellent presentation. Thanks for this very important information.
OH MY GOD
THE OLD VIDEO I WATCHED MANY MANY TIMES AND IS VERY NOSTALGIC FOR ME
TO SEE A NEW ONE RELEASE IS SURREAL.
That video was so well-made !
I was a bit disappointed that there was not more detail regarding the period of about 20,000 years ago to 2,000 years ago. Is it that the information is not available? My understanding is that there were a number of great civilizations that rose and fell during this time period, and I was particularly interested in how these eras affected population growth/decline.
Which civilizations are you thinking of? Those "great" civilizations were really small when put in relation.
As far as I know, there are not many credible global-level historical population estimates, but the Wikipedia page "Estimates of historical world population" and the "Population sources" page on Our World In Data give a pretty good overview. As for regional or country-level historical estimates, I have not found any that are credible, and those that claim to be credible have such high uncertainty that they are practically useless.
You guys are awesome! Wish I could meet you
In 1969 when NASA landed on the moon, there were 3.6 Billion people on the planet. Now roughly 8 Billion. Thats a huge exponential curve. Doesn't bode well.
At first I thought the location of the dots related to population centres but realised there were dots to represent a million people in countries where the population was very dispersed. When the first dot in Australia was placed in Perth the concept of geographical representation lost any credibility.
Interesting observation
On the contrary, in terms of India they were quite accurate in portraying the Gangetic Plains as the most densely populated from the very beginning and the other population centres also aligned up quite well with the ancient city centres that had come about.
Yes, ought to be Melbourne
Very interesting video, thank you!
The Geiger Counter sounded like it was going mad near the end of the timeline.😂
Really well made video! Interesting to see all the events and baby boom!
I think I understand why you posted this.
What you're saying is that I need to move to Australia if I want to find surf breaks that are not so crowded. Thanks for the advice, dude!
In India population growth rate is declining already since last 10 years. Despite people live minimalistically due to cultural or economic reasons, resources felt limited. And the public is demanding a strict 2 child policy to control poor having more than 2 children.
Don't be sad when you see a declining population. You don't know the headache of living within too much crowd. The rat race, high property prices, lower wages, cut-throat competition, less clean conditions, etc
Global population NEEDS to go down. That is a GOOD thing.
@@odonnelly46 yes agreed..in India we are trying to do this....annual fertility rate has come down from 6.0 in 1950s to 2.1(ideal 100% replacement rate) in 2021. In India, it should further be down to 1.5-1.6 to reduce overall population gradually and also to avoid Japan like situation.
1.5? Go get education. @@KuchNahiBasAiseHi
@@odonnelly46 No it isn't. A population decline will lead to less technological advances and declining economies which tends to lead to wars.
Resources shortage is most likely because the consumption of the riches and you blame poor people who barely got food
Should've mentioned the average life expectancy as well. 150 years ago, we averaged like 40 years old. Now it nearly 80.
That alone sways the numbers a lot. I'm curious what the softens would be if you just compare 20-40 year olds through the century
very cool video!! just pure factual information condensed within a 6 minute video.
Wonderfully done, thank you.
"Eliminate the talking carbon. Problem solved." - Talking carbon
Not sure about other regions, but those dots representing a million people are wildly inaccurate in regards to Australia. Perth was not the first population to have a million people (Sydney was) and didn't have a million people until 1984. Albany (WA) has never had even close to a million people (current pop. 35,000), even all of WA excluding Perth does not have a million people.
They don't represent cities.
@@thorr18BEM a dot represents an area with 1 million people. that area does not have even close to one million so it should not be put there. it is very misleading and an awful graphic
Sydney
Melbourne
Brisbane
Perth
Adelaide
Are the only areas or cities with over 1 million
@@bunthoeunhas549Yes and this video shows Albany as one of the "one million people" dots appearing at 4:19
What a great video! Love it!
Ooh you updated it cool
Oh my litlle beloved India
Loved 1st part uploaded in 2015 peaking at 11 billion and now this one 8 years later at 10.5 billion. That's the only difference. Apt background music, awesome effects and visuals and that mountain after year 1950 remains same 🤣
Very well made, thanks!
What a brilliant presentation!
Absolutely loved the older version of this video, glad to see it updated!
Glad to hear it!
Can't wait for a population video of Mars.
Population of rocks?
im sure someone in the future will be looking at our comment and laughing at us while there are over 1000 people on mars@@Quareque
finally the updated version!
Glad you did an updated version for 2023 since our global population has achieved 8 billion! ;)
I remember watching a video like this a year ago. It was with my grandfather, while he was sick and he had just gotten back from the hospital. He was fine. 2 weeks later, he was dead. I miss you so much, PopPop.
R.I.P. :(
it's really scary to think how fertility rates are dropping. we really need to do something about this or from 1920 to 2020 are population grew more then 3 times but in another hundred years we will only gain (2.5B) thats hard to belive.
Or just leave it alone. We don't need anymore humans destroying our home world. This could be mother nature correcting the balance of the world by ensuring Humanity steadily declines without resorting to mass extinction level event. Parenthood should be a choice not an obligation.
The population decline is a GOOD thing. Population is STILL growing and will continue to grow for a few more decades, before beginning to decrease. We need a much more sustainable population if we wish our species to continue for the long term.
@@odonnelly46 while i understand your point this population decline is major and will most likely not stop at the rate we are going. plus for the long term we will need a more advanced species and if you take a look, our Iq rates are dropping so less people with less IQ is a bad thing, however more mouths to feed is also a problem. and if tens of thousands of well trained scientists cant fix this well, we are doomed.
This video is amazing.
Nicely presented. The Silk Road button lingers on too long and the static sound made for each million in population becomes too noisy (predictably) - both create big distribution.
My parents born in 1960 in their lifetime we went from 3b to 8billion. Crazy
Well done! thank you!
1900:1.8b
2023:8b
☻️👍🏻very fast
Fascinating
THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO OF THE WORLD!
I remember when it reached 4, 5, 6, and 7 Billion. It was only 3.27 Billion when I was born.
Me? 7B
1971?
The peopling of the Americas is strange because people spread throughout both continents in a very short time frame. The oldest confirmed sites in the Americas are around 16,000 years old. By 14,000 years ago, people were living in places as distant from Beringia as South Carolina and Chile.
I’m glad this got an update as I occasionally come back to this video lol
Industrialization is one hell of a drug!
I personally believe human population has already reached it’s peak.
Africa still has a fertility rate of 4.0 with a massive population of 1.4 Billion
@@Arkham-kq9uf and they will eventually reach their peak.
@@user-jt3dw6vv4x estimates say that by 2100, Africa will have 4 billion people which will be the most in any continent. I don't think their peak will come anytime sooner
Yes, according to some documentaries that I have seen, the world had the most births around 2006, and we have been declining since. The population is expected to grow to about 10 billion by 2100, then have a steep decline. Most Asian countries have an elderly population that will dramatically shrink by 2050. Europe and the US are not far behind. Africans will lead the population by 2100 as they have the youngest population, but people all over the world are having less children. The population will naturally shrink after 2100 when the people being born today pass away.
Well done, accurate, and the the four points of action at the end appear -- in my estimation -- perfect: 1. Family planning (population size); 2. Reduced Consumption (critical and inevitable); 3. Pollution controls (all our waste streams, including CO2, toxins, etc., and 4. Habitat protection (which will help slow the biodiversity collapse). Our growth theories are natural and once had some survival value, but these traits and instincts are now maladaptive. This video is a good reminder: We live on a finite planet.
That's the most important video of the world.
It is crazy that our growth is barely a curve, it's almost two perpendicular lines with a little curve joining them
This curve is called a parabola. It occurs when one of the axes is a number increasing exponentially.
@@dingusdingus2152 Thank you for telling me!
I would say it's highly exponential rather than parabolic.
@@Beerbatter1962 there is no such thing as highly exponential. An equation is either exponential or it's not. There are no degrees or gradations as in it's kind of sort of exponential, or this is more exponential than that. To think of it in this way is stupid. When you plot the numbers on a graph the line at a certain point swoops from horizontal to vertical describing a curve called a parabola, or parabolic curve. Standard terminology here, not trying to trick anyone. Should have paid more attention back in math class.
@@dingusdingus2152 You are wrong again. The exponent in the exponential function does in fact control how exponential, or quickly, the curve ramps up. And maybe do a little research concerning population growth.
Is it just weird that the population counter noise is a Geiger counter?
I went to this museum when I was 5 with my parents. Fun times.
Why do I find this video terrifying, but in a good way. And of course very fascinating. Thank you for posting!
Very good... Incredible!
Yeah this was an awesome video.
I had to keep pausing just to soak it all in.
What a well made video concise and well put together and I liked the way the video ended too, not lecturing us to "save the planet" but to be cautious to save ourselves and our fellow life on this planet....
Kinda cringe huh
💭 Thank you!! 🗺️
After that exponential looking graph I am a bit skeptical of the leveling off prediction. Suddenly the you are the carbon they want to reduce stuff intruded my head.
What's hard to imagine is since my birth the population increased by over 5 billion people. That's an awful lot of CO2 and methane. The 1973 movie Solent Green comes to mind. Soylent Green's timeline was 2022 ironically.
Good for plants 🤔 oxygen was originally organic "pollution"
I'm 69 years old. When I was in grade school, there were 3 billion people. In one lifetime, we have nearly trippled. But I learned about the populaton explosion and global warming in the 60s. Never had kids. People never understood my choice. Oh, well. My children will not watch the planet die. The planet will survive, and refresh in a few million years. We won't.
When I was in school and first aware of the world's population it was 4.5 billion around 1980. Probably 3 billion might be a sustainable population with modern lifestyle and use of resources. I think it's more likely we'll have a collapse than one of those projected curves at the end.
I share your concern as I am 65 but we haven’t got the brain of dinosaurs. We are vastly beyond dinosaurs and we are resourceful and inventive creatures (though most things we use them badly) and we have no idea (maybe a little) what our next generation are going as optimistic insight remains within in all of us.
@@coopernickerson7470 in some sense, thats exactly the problem, our brains allow us to exploit the planet and each other like no other creature.
Agreed we have unsustainable population but currently there are two or less children per family these days than five back then. So population in the future as they predict will level off. Our generation knows about crisis which we didn’t back then after the war.
Ah, a rare enlightened boomer. It really angers me how careless people used to be with the planet, cursing present and future generations to an increasingly bad set of possibilities. Nice to know that at least some people care. I've known a couple other people from the older generations with that mindset, but its sadly very rare, and easy to see how we got to this point. Even now, people think that bringing up the issue of overpopulation or suggesting/choosing to not have children is crazy. Earth can really only handle 1 to 2 billion people without horrific consequences for the planet and its future. I really wish I was born 70 years ago, when there was actually enough nature to go around and overpopulation problems had only just began to emerge.
Thank you!
It sounds like the world is becoming more and more radioactive.
Well done, showing the Irish population decline during the Irish Famine in the mid to late 1800's and never getting back to what it was. I can only assume that everything portrayed is correct . Brilliant as always.
It’s amazing how the shoreline never changed at the end of the ice age and no cities went underwater
I really want to know the stories behind 1 million people centers in Ancient Africa and America.
Like that 1 million people dot near Vancouver at the start of the video, I want to know more about it!
Very fascinating.
Great video.
There are too many people in this world. We need another planet. 🙂
I once saw this chart that showed If The World Were 200 People, 123 (61.5%) would come from The Middle East & Asia, 35 (17.5%) would come from Africa, 15 (7.5%) would come from Europe, 15 (7.5%) would come from North & Central America, 11 (5.5%) would come from South America, & 1 (0.5%) would come from Oceania.
The Middle East and Asia shouldn't be lumped together. There should be clear distinction between the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, South East Asia and East Asia
Middle east is empty
the middle east IS asia
@@marcoroberts9462
That's just a convention
asia was named for western anatolia. @@varoonnone7159 the middle east is most definitely asia
It's like staring at a pot waiting for water to boil
We going to have to grow our own food soon as there won’t be enough to go around from markets
I like to grow vegetables in the back gardens.
Cool video! I didn’t realize China and India grew their populations so early.
Interestingly China and India have been the wealthiest and most advanced civilisations for the majority of humanity's history, there are theories suggesting the industrial revolution was an aberration and that it will return to that "status quo" again this century
@@funbarsolaris2822 both countries have immense fertile land . There's virtually no part in Present India which didn't support agriculture .
That is why they are the most populated countries today.
@@funbarsolaris2822 Europeans finding the American continent really fueled it all, I think.
Interesting that India is now the most populous country in the world, and will remain so for at least two centuries (or more?)
Well. that escalated quickly.
this was one of my favorite population growth videos back then, good thing they remastered it
The curve went like an L ngl💀
It took all of history to have this animation of history.
Now more than 8 billion... All needing fresh water, food, wood and other ressources every day plus polluting the environment with plastics, poop and chemicals... The madness is real...
loved the background music!!!
Yayyy part two, just watched the first one again yesterday 😅
i think it will peak around 2045-50 given there's no medical life extension miracle.
then the economy, pension, elderely care, taxation, real estate, and everything will collapse catatropically.
That sounded like a Geiger counter on purpose?
Yeah, we're about as dangerous to earth as radiation is to us, so it makes sense