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Encyclopedia > World population estimates

A list of data for historical human population of planet Earth from various sources is recorded here for reference (see e.g. World population). This article is about Earth as a planet. ... // Look up source in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Map of countries by population — China and India, the only two countries to have a population greater than one billion, together possess more than a third of the worlds population. ...

Year UN Medium Census.gov PRB[1] about.com Tanton Kremer Ponting Article
Reference [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
-1,000,000 125,000
-50,000
-10,000 5,002,000 4,000,000 4,000,000
-8000 5,000,000 5,000,000 5,000,000
-6500 7,500,000
-5000 12,500,000 4,000,000
-4000 7,000,000 7,000,000
-3000 14,000,000 14,000,000
-2000 27,000,000 27,000,000
-1000 50,000,000 50,000,000 50,000,000 50,000,000
-500 100,000,000 100,000,000 100,000,000
-400 162,000,000
-200 265,500,000 200,000,000
0 (1 AD) 370,000,000 300,000,000 200,000,000 150,000,000 170,000,000 300,000,000
200 223,000,000 200,000,000
400 198,000,000 220,000,000
500 198,000,000 190,000,000
600 203,000,000
700 208,500,000
800 222,000,000
900 233,000,000
1000 299,500,000 275,000,000 265,000,000 265,000,000 310,000,000
1100 310,500,000 320,000,000
1200 405,000,000 450,000,000 350,000,000
1250 408,000,000
1300 396,000,000 400,000,000
1340 443,000,000
1350 300,000,000
1400 362,000,000 350,000,000
1500 482,500,000 450,000,000 425,000,000
1600 562,000,000 500,000,000 545,000,000
1650 507,500,000
1700 639,500,000 600,000,000 610,000,000
1750 795,000,000 795,000,000 700,000,000 720,000,000 791,000,000
1800 969,000,000 900,000,000 900,000,000 978,000,000
1804 1,000,000,000
1825 1,000,000,000
1850 1,265,000,000 1,265,000,000 1,200,000,000 1,200,000,000 1,262,000,000
1900 1,656,000,000 1,656,000,000 1,600,000,000 1,600,000,000 1,800,000,000 1,650,000,000
1910 1,750,000,000
1920 1,860,000,000
1925 2,000,000,000
1927 2,000,000,000
1930 2,070,000,000
1940 2,300,000,000
1950 2,519,470,000 2,478,500,000 2,516,000,000 2,550,000,000 2,400,000,000 2,500,000,000 2,518,629,000
1955 2,757,399,000 2,800,000,000 2,755,823,000
1960 3,000,000,000 3,000,000,000 3,000,000,000 2,981,659,000
1961 3,000,000,000
1965 3,337,974,000 3,300,000,000 3,334,874,000
1970 3,696,588,000 3,700,000,000 3,692,492,000
1974 4,000,000,000
1975 4,073,740,000 4,000,000,000 4,000,000,000 4,068,109,000
1980 4,442,295,000 4,500,000,000 4,434,682,000
1985 4,843,947,000 4,850,000,000 5,000,000,000 4,830,979,000
1987 5,000,000,000
1988 5,000,000,000
1990 5,279,519,000 5,300,000,000 5,200,000,000 5,263,593,000
1991 5,400,000,000
1992 5,467,000,000
1995 5,692,353,000 5,760,000,000 5,700,000,000 5,674,380,000
1999 6,000,000,000
2000 6,085,572,000 6,100,000,000 6,000,000,000 6,070,581,000
2002 6,215,000,000
2005 6,464,750,000 6,450,000,000 6,453,628,000
2006 [10] 6,555,000,000 6,500,000,000
2010 [11] 6,842,923,000 6,800,000,000 6,830,283,000
2015 [12] 7,219,431,000 7,197,247,000
2020 [13] 7,577,889,000 7,500,000,000 8,000,000,000 7,540,237,000
2025 [14] 7,905,239,000 7,940,000,000 7,851,455,000
2030 [15] 8,199,104,000 8,100,000,000 8,130,149,000
2035 [16] 8,463,265,000 8,378,184,000
2040 [17] 8,701,319,000 8,600,000,000 8,593,591,000
2045 [18] 8,907,417,000 8,774,394,000
2050 [19] 9,075,903,000 9,243,000,000 9,000,000,000 8,918,724,000

References

  1. ^ Population Reference Bureau
  2. ^ Medium variant from esa.un.org/unpp
  3. ^ Average of high and low data from the U.S. Census Bureau's Historical Estimates of World Population summing up data from Biraben, Durand, Haub, McEvedy and Jones, Thomlinson, UN (1993), UN (1999), and USCB
  4. ^ Data from Population Reference Bureau DataFinder summary of PRB 2006 World Population Data Sheet (PDF) and from How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?
  5. ^ Data from about.com: World Population Growth
  6. ^ John H. Tanton, "End of the Migration Epoch," reprinted by The Social Contract, Vol IV, No 3 and Vol. V, No. 1, 1995.
  7. ^ Kremer (1993)
  8. ^ Ponting (1991): A Green history of the World
  9. ^ Data from World population
  10. ^ estimate is for mid-2006
  11. ^ high is 6,903,276,000 and low is 6,781,431,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
  12. ^ high is 7,382,434,000 and low is 7,054,584,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
  13. ^ high is 7,873,172,000 and low is 7,280,148,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
  14. ^ high is 8,336,867,000 and low is 7,471,426,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
  15. ^ high is 8,784,155,000 and low is 7,618,083,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
  16. ^ high is 9,237,907,000 and low is 7,712,423,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
  17. ^ high is 9,709,446,000 and low is 7,753,745,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
  18. ^ high is 10,184,739,000 and low is 7,741,810,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
  19. ^ high is 10,646,311,000 and low is 7,679,714,000 from esa.un.org/unpp

 

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