{"id":2198,"date":"2014-11-29T19:44:19","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2198"},"modified":"2014-11-29T19:44:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:44:19","slug":"visualizing-peak-popopulation-zero-hedge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2198","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Peak Popopulation | Zero Hedge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Visualizing Peak Popopulation | Zero Hedge<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Even with having existed for millions of years, the process for humans to reach 1 billion in population was long and arduous.<\/strong>\u00a0It is only about 12,000 years ago that humans started engaging in sedentary agriculture. This allowed humans to settle and consistently produce food, rather than hunt and gather throughout.<\/p>\n

However, it is with the Industrial Revolution that the means for exponential human population increases was created. New technology, boosts in productivity, and the use of energy allowed for a new frontier in increasing health, sanitation, and standard of living. It is also around this time \u2013 in 1804 to be exact \u2013 that the earth\u2019s population hit 1 billion people.<\/p>\n

Fast forward two hundred years, and the impact of the Industrial Revolution is loud and clear.\u00a0<\/strong>Now with over 7 billion people, global population has risen so fast that by one estimate, 14% of all human beings that have ever existed are alive today.<\/p>\n

Based on a recent UN study, by 2100, our global population is predicted to be between 9.6 and 12.3 billion people.\u00a0The world will be much different than we know it today in the future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

For starters, the vast majority of growth will happen in the less developed regions of the world. As an example, Nigeria\u2019s population will increase five-fold, from around 174 million today to almost a billion people. It will likely be the 3rd most populous country behind India and China in 2100. Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole could hold up to almost half of the world\u2019s population in the future.<\/p>\n

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Visualizing Peak Popopulation | Zero Hedge. Even with having existed for millions of years, the process for humans to reach 1 billion in population was long and arduous.\u00a0It is only about 12,000 years ago that humans started engaging in sedentary agriculture. This allowed humans to settle and consistently produce food, rather than hunt and gather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[1500,1499,1498,1497,1371],"class_list":["post-2198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-agricultural-revolution","tag-carrying-capacity","tag-industrial-revolution","tag-peak-population","tag-population"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2199,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2198\/revisions\/2199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}