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How fast has the world's population grown?

According to some estimates, 100 billion people have managed to live on Earth in the entire history of civilization.

One and a half million years ago, about 100 thousand people lived on our planet (more precisely, in Africa) - the oldest ape-like people of the Paleolithic era. In the thousandth year BC, the Earth was already inhabited by about 100 million people (this is the population of modern Mexico).

By the beginning of the new era, the number of inhabitants of the planet had doubled (today, about the same number lives in Indonesia alone). And then humanity moved at the same unhurried speed - a little more than ten people per hour. For the first millennium of the new era, the increase was again 100 million. In the second millennium, the pace accelerated, and by the middle of the 500th century, 1804 million people already lived on Earth (this is about half the population of present-day India), and around XNUMX earthlings received their first billion.

In the 1927th century, population growth accelerated sharply. In 2 humanity reached a population of 1960 billion, in 3 - 14 billion. Another 4 years have passed, and there are already 13 billion people on Earth. 1987 years later, in 5 - 12 billion. And 1999 years later (6), the 9 billionth inhabitant came to the planet! Unfortunately, in this respect Russia stands as if apart. In recent years, the mortality rate has significantly exceeded the birth rate: for every thousand inhabitants, 16 people are born, and 0,7 die. Minus XNUMX percent growth per year is a demographic catastrophe.

If this trend continues, then by 2050 the population of Russia will be only 120 million people and it will move from 7th to 14th place in the world according to this indicator (leaving behind Nigeria, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Congo, Mexico, Philippines and Vietnam). ).

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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