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  1. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

    A late human population bottleneck is postulated by some scholars at approximately 70,000 years ago, during the Toba catastrophe, when Homo sapiens population may have dropped to as …

  2. World Population by Year - Worldometer

    Population growth through history from 5000 BC to the current year (2025) for the entire population of the world

  3. What Was Earth’s Population Through History? — History Facts

    Jun 6, 2024 · Over the next 15,000 years, as human societies improved, the population increased more rapidly. By 5000 BCE, the world population was at least 5 million, and some estimates …

  4. How has world population growth changed over time?

    Jun 1, 2023 · The world population has changed dramatically over the last few centuries. Let’s examine long-run population data to understand this change and how quickly the world’s …

  5. Historical Estimates of World Population - Census.gov

    Dec 4, 2025 · Population, Selected Papers, December, table 2. Durand, John D., 1974, "Historical Estimates of World Population: An Evaluation," University of Pennsylvania, Population Center, …

  6. Global population 10,000BCE-2100| Statista

    Nov 28, 2025 · Until the 1800s, population growth was incredibly slow on a global level. The global population was estimated to have been around 188 million people in the year 1CE, and …

  7. World Population Timeline – Growth and Trends (10,000 BC–2100)

    Explore the evolution of the world’s population from 10,000 BC to 2100 with this detailed, data-rich historical timeline.

  8. History of Human Population Growth - CK-12 Foundation

    Dec 1, 2025 · This graph shows world population growth from 100 thousand years ago until about the year 2000, when the world population numbered about six billion. Note that both scales of …