World Population Growth

The world by population density
Another way to understand how people are distributed across the world is to show the population density – the number of people per unit area – of each country on a geographical world map. World population from 10,000 BC to today
The chart below shows the the increasing number of people living on our planet over the last 12,000 years. This means that today’s population size makes up 6.5% of the total number of people ever born.1
For the long period from the appearance of modern Homo sapiens up to the starting point of this chart in 10,000 BCE it is estimated that the total world population was often well under one million.2 In this period our species was often seriously threatened by extinction.3
The interactive visualization is here.

Source: ourworldindata.org