World population estimates
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A list of data for historical human population of planet Earth from various sources is recorded here for reference (see e.g. World 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 |
[edit] References
- ^ Population Reference Bureau
- ^ Medium variant from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ 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
- ^ 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?
- ^ Data from about.com: World Population Growth
- ^ John H. Tanton, "End of the Migration Epoch," reprinted by The Social Contract, Vol IV, No 3 and Vol. V, No. 1, 1995.
- ^ Kremer (1993)
- ^ Ponting (1991): A Green history of the World
- ^ Data from World population
- ^ estimate is for mid-2006
- ^ high is 6,903,276,000 and low is 6,781,431,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ high is 7,382,434,000 and low is 7,054,584,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ high is 7,873,172,000 and low is 7,280,148,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ high is 8,336,867,000 and low is 7,471,426,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ high is 8,784,155,000 and low is 7,618,083,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ high is 9,237,907,000 and low is 7,712,423,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ high is 9,709,446,000 and low is 7,753,745,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ high is 10,184,739,000 and low is 7,741,810,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
- ^ high is 10,646,311,000 and low is 7,679,714,000 from esa.un.org/unpp
