World Population

A graphic description of world population growth from 1 A.D.

World Population (Millenium Edition) was produced and copyrighted by Population Connection (formerly Zero Population Growth, Inc.) in 2000. Population Connection is a nonprofit, 501(c)(3) organization.

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[pronatalist]

I am very concerned about the compelling reasons why people really should have more children. As human pops grow, the number of parents yearning for more children, also grows. This is not a reason for scheming for pop _control," but rather, why human pops should grow "wild," and baby booms should ever be encouraged.

I would love to see the world relax, rebound to the naturally-large family sizes of the past, as the huge pops boom freely. We just have to spread people to more places than before.

[Alisha Otter]

That's a very nice way to look at populations. I too am pro life and really wish that abortions were non existent. How horribly selfish would you have to be to end a life before it begins just so your lifestyle won't change? Women like that make me sick.

[pronatalist]

They say it is not so much that people are having so many children, as it is that there are just now so many people having children.

They say you can't stop people from having sex. As a pro-life activist, I have both practical and "religious objections" to all methods of "birth control." I believe it is counterproductive for humans to make any efforts to "control" our numbers. The more people, the more people to benefit.

Each and every human life is of immense value and sacred, so let pop spread

[pronatalist]

World pop is growing to become more and more, supposed because people are living longer, so babies are growing up to have still more babies. But also, it appears to be because especially human pops tend to throw exponentially. An old "overpop" article claimed that the number of women of childbearing age is higher than it has previously been, as the prime reason for so much pop growth these days.

Probably some people are rejecting contraceptives.

Human life is sacred in all forms, even semen.

[Alisha Otter]

Is the population growing more each year because we've learned how to live longer or because more couples want to have kids today than back then?

[Magickirk1]

Also, the dots in this video kept increasing in Europe during the black death, when population actually decreased

[Magickirk1]

I wonder how many of the people who complain about there being too many people have pets that are further straining the environment

[Gaurav Nagar]

Mr Bruton, skin color is an adaptation to UV light exposure. It has very little to do with anything else. Body needs some to synthesize vitamin D but not too much because that may cause skin cancer. Read a little about Epigenetics and the "Flynn Effect". It might change your perspective.

[Dean Owens]

Eugenics with a more politically correct name....

[ProviewEngland]

You are correct.