WILL RAPID GLOBAL POPULATION GROWTH COME TO AN END?
Two centuries of rapid global population growth will come to an end... June 18, 2019 by Max Roser Our World in Data presents the empirical evidence on global development in entries dedicated to specific topics. This blog post draws on data and research discussed in our entry on World Population Growth and Future Population Growth . One of the big lessons from the demographic history of countries is that population explosions are temporary. For many countries the demographic transition has already ended, and as the global fertility rate has now halved we know that the world as a whole is approaching the end of rapid population growth. The visualization below presents this big overview of the global demographic transition – with the very latest data from the UN Population Division just published . As we explore at the beginning of the entry on population growth , the global population grew only very slowly up to 1700 – only 0.04% per year. In the many millennia up to that point in ...