History

How many people lived on Earth in the year 1 AD?

About 300 million

Background

Two thousand years ago only around 300 million people lived in the whole world. That is fewer than the population of the United States alone today. Today we are over 8 billion. The world population grew very slowly for a long time. Only in the last 200 years did it shoot up fast.

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