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India and China have so many people today because they’re good for farming and big, but they’ve always been that way, so they’ve actually had a huge proportion of Earth’s people for thousands of years.
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Info about world population growth: https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth/
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With Contributions From: Henry Reich, Ever Salazar, Peter Reich, David Goldenberg
Music by: Nathaniel Schroeder: http://www.soundcloud.com/drschroeder
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References:
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Gidwani, V.K., April 2017, personal communication.
Goldewijk, K.K., Beusen, A., & Janssen, P. 2010. Long-term dynamic modeling of global population and built-up area in a spatially explicit way: HYDE 3.1. The Holocene, 20(4), 565-573. https://goo.gl/BuwJLQ
Goldewijk, K.K., Arthur Beusen, Jonathan Doelman, and Elke Stehfest. “New anthropogenic land use estimates for the Holocene; HYDE 3.2.” Unpublished manuscript. https://goo.gl/z73PNr
Goldewijk, K.K., April 2017, personal communication.
Maddison, A. 2006. The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. OECD. https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/world_economy.pdf
Roberts, E., March 2017, personal communication.
Ruggles, S., March 2017, personal communication.
Stearns, P. N. (Ed.). 2001. The encyclopedia of world history: Ancient, Medieval, and Modern, chronologically arranged. Houghton Mifflin. Chicago.
Thanks also to Deepak Ray, Jamie Gerber, Emily Cassidy, and Ryan Loomis.
