From 1 million humans in 10,000 B.C., all the way to 7.02 billion. The journey of our kind on Earth, all in numbers! By 10,000 B.C., the world's population was around 1 million. 2,000 years later there were about 5 million people on Earth—the same number that live in Finland today.
As recently as 12,000 years ago, there were only 4 million people worldwide. The chart shows the rapid increase in the global population since 1700. The one-billion mark wasn't broken until the early 1800s.
1000 years BCE the world population was 50 million people. 500 years BCE it was 100 million, and in the year 0 around 200 million people were estimated to live on Earth.
The UN estimated that the world population reached one billion for the first time in 1804. It was another 123 years before it reached two billion in 1927, but it took only 33 years to reach three billion in 1960.
By 1 A.D., the population had reached 300 million, which indicates a growth rate of 0.0512% per year. Life expectancy at birth averaged 10 years for most of human history.
The population of the world was about 300 million at the time of Christ and changed very little in the next thousand years. The population of the world reached one billion in 1804, three billion in 1960, and rose to about 6.8 billion in 2010.
Eight billionth person
United Nations stated that they "can't predict which exact baby will push us into the next billion". Nonetheless, the Philippines' Commission on Population and Development selected Vinice Mabansag, a baby girl born in Manila, as the symbolic eight billionth person on Earth.
Earth's capacity
Many scientists think Earth has a maximum carrying capacity of 9 billion to 10 billion people. [ How Do You Count 7 Billion People?] One such scientist, the eminent Harvard University sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson, bases his estimate on calculations of the Earth's available resources.
The Philippines Commission on Population and Development (Popcom) chose our baby as their symbolic 8 billionth baby, and brought a banner, cake and toys. We decided to name her Vinice after Vincent's nickname, Vin.
Researchers have announced the naming of a newly discovered species of human ancestor, Homo bodoensis. The species lived in Africa about 500,000 years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene age, and was the direct ancestor of modern humans, according to scientists.
The residents of the Moroccan site weren't quite the Homo sapiens of today; their skulls were less rounded and more elongated than ours, perhaps signaling differences between our brains and theirs. However, their teeth closely resemble those in the mouths of modern humans—and their faces looked just like ours.
10,000 years ago: European males – 162.5cm (5 ft 4 inches). A dramatic reduction in the size of humans occurred at this time. Many scientists think that this reduction was influenced by global climatic change and the adoption of agriculture.
New genetic findings suggest that early humans living about one million years ago were extremely close to extinction.
The fossil record indicates that Homo sapiens has been around for 315,000 years or so, but for most of that time, the species was rare—so rare, in fact, that it came close to extinction, perhaps more than once.
There are three times in history during which humans nearly went extinct. Here's what threatened us, and how we survived.
Yes, for two main reasons. First, people are rapidly displacing wildlife species across the globe, initiating a mass extinction event.
India will remain the world's most populous country in 2050, having already reached that status this year. And while China will retain its position at second, its population will decline from 1.44 billion in 2030 to 1.32 billion in 2050 — representing an enduring legacy of its draconian one-child policy.
An increase in population will inevitably create pressures leading to more deforestation, decreased biodiversity, and spikes in pollution and emissions, which will exacerbate climate change.
A baby girl has been declared the world's eight-billionth person in a symbolic gesture. Vinice Mabansag was born in the Philippines capital, Manila, at 1.29am yesterday. She was chosen to mark the UN's estimate that the global population has now reached 8,000,000,000.
Discoveries now suggest modern Homo sapiens existed much earlier, around 200,000 B.C.E. This major change in our understanding of human existence spurred new calculations and consultations with experts, resulting in an estimate that about 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth.
As the day wore on, a line of other newborns appeared, each welcomed by officials who declared them to be the 7 billionth. At a rural clinic in Uttar Pradesh, officials announced the arrival of Nargis Yadav. India's health minister said the milestone was not cause for celebration.
Aramaic is best known as the language Jesus spoke. It is a Semitic language originating in the middle Euphrates. In 800-600 BC it spread from there to Syria and Mesopotamia. The oldest preserved inscriptions are from this period and written in Old Aramaic.
With this context and timeframe in mind, the demographers estimate that 109 billion people have lived and died over the course of 192,000 years. If we add the number of people alive today, we get 117 billion humans that have ever lived.
Standardized under the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the system spread throughout Europe and the Christian world during the centuries that followed. AD stands for Anno Domini, Latin for “in the year of the Lord”, while BC stands for “before Christ”.