Learn about the impact of population growth and important milestones in human history and view other key data including land use, fertility rates, CO2 emissions, life expectancy, and urbanization.

Divide students into small groups to cover the six regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Northern America, and Oceania) and direct each group to www.WorldPopulationHistory.org.

It starts in 1 CE, when the world population was approximately 170 million, depicts its expansion to the current level of 8 billion, and ends in the year 2050, with a projected population of over 9 billion people.

Display the website WorldPopulationHistory.org. Enable the Human Land Use Overlay on your map (select Overlays, click Human Land Use) and turn off the Population Dots (select Map Features, click …

World Population Prospects 2022. File GEN/01/REV1: Demographic indicators by region, subregion and country, annually for 1950-2100; Our World in Data 1800-1927 based on Gapminder sources.

Display the map and timeline on the main page of www.WorldPopulationHistory.org and explain to students that you’ll be exploring specific advances in medicine, food and agriculture, and public …

The genesis of this project was World Population, a simple, yet powerful, video animation of “dots on a map” representing population changes through time. First produced by Population Connection (Zero …

The population of Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, has doubled roughly every 5 years since 1950. From 2010 to 2015, Kinshasa’s population grew by over 23 percent, and today …

This interactive chart shows the UN’s 2022 estimates and probabilistic projections of total world population. Use the slider to see how changes in the fertility rate affect the population projections.

With population expected to reach 9.5 billion by 2050, many wonder if our natural resources can keep up with our growing demands. The World Population Map can be viewed with the data overlay, “Human …