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The world population 12 millennia ago was around 4 million – half of the current population of London. [source https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth …]pic.twitter.com/k9hqchNwO2
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The rate at which the world population grows has reached its peak more than half a century ago. Since the early 1960s the growth rate has more than halved. For the coming decades demographers expect the growth to fall further. [Also from https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth#how-has-world-population-growth-changed-over-time …]pic.twitter.com/ZsbreJz5o8
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It would be interesting to see a graph of the second derivative – of the rate of change in the growth rate.
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