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  2. Estimates of historical world population - Wikipedia

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    Published estimates for the 1st century ("AD 1") suggest uncertainty of the order of 50% (estimates range between 150 and 330 million). Some estimates extend their timeline into deep prehistory, to " 10,000 BC", i.e., the early Holocene , when world population estimates range roughly between 1 and 10 million (with an uncertainty of up to an ...

  3. List of states by population in 1 CE - Wikipedia

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    List of countries by population; List of countries by population in 1000; List of countries by population in 1500; List of countries by population in 1600; List of countries by population in 1700; List of countries by population in 1800; List of political entities in the 1st century

  4. 1st century - Wikipedia

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    The 1st century was the century spanning AD 1 ... Manning (2008) tentatively estimates the world population in AD 80 to have been 250 million.

  5. List of countries by population in 1000 - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of countries by population in 1000. The bulk of these numbers are sourced from Alexander V. Avakov's Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics , Volume 1, pages 12 to 14, which cover population figures from the year 1000 divided into modern borders.

  6. List of largest cities throughout history - Wikipedia

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    This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.

  7. Demographic history - Wikipedia

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    During the 14th century, there was a fall in population associated with the Black Death that spread from Asia to Europe. This was followed by a period of restrained growth for 300 years. [6] John F. Richards estimated the following world populations from the early modern period, 1500–1800. [7] 1500 world population 400-500 million; 1600 world ...

  8. Classical demography - Wikipedia

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    Map of the world in 323 BC Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 100 BC. Classical demography refers to the study of human demography in the Classical period.It often focuses on the absolute number of people who were alive in civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea between the Bronze Age and the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but in recent decades historians have been more interested in ...

  9. World population - Wikipedia

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    During the 20th century, the global population saw its greatest increase in known history, rising from about 1.6 billion in 1900 to over 6 billion in 2000 [102] as the whole world entered the early phases of what has come to be called the "demographic transition".