Chart by Quizmaster Last updated: Monday June 28th, 2021
Throughout written history, Asia has been by far the most populous continent. However, explosive growth in Africa may change that by the end of the 21st century.
Could you maybe make one that is not logarithmic that maybe could end at the beginning of the 1900s, before the most extreme population growth? It'd be interesting to see how it would look without distortion
Antarctica, Oceania, and S E A L A N D: ARE WE JOKES TO YOU?
(Sealand is a micro-nation-principality that doesn't have world recognition, and I consider it a country, and in 2002-3, the population of Sealand was at twenty-seven people).
In all seriousness, Even though Australia (Or Oceania) wasn't discovered until like, early-mid 1500's-late 1700's, you should have put it on there, and even though Antarctica was discovered in the late 1800's- EARLY EARLY 1900's, you should have put it in there.
The scariest thing about this chart is the huge drop in population in the Americas between 1500 and 1600. Nothing communicates the brutality of colonization better than population loss.
The Americas were barely colonized during that time period. The reason for the population loss is disease. Imagine a population with no immunity being exposed to malaria, smallpox, measles, and many other diseases all at the same time.
Well, this coincides with the ending of the several Independence Wars through the formerly Spanish and Portuguese domains.
And while there were internal and external wars (almost every country had civil or partisan-related wars), during peacetime almost every country managed to thrive and have their population grown.
Of course, after 1913 came World War One and the Great Depression; the Mexican Revolution entered its most destructive phase; Peru and Chile saw guano and natural nitrate got devalued and replaced by chemical nitrate... Several things that made a dent (but in fact didn't halt) in population growth.
I'm guessing that the United States also drove a lot of the growth because of industrialization and mass immigration in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
Of course, the good thing about a log graph is that it allows the lines to be far closer than they would be otherwise, as opposed to a graph where Asia is at the very top and there is a massive gap until the European line.
(Sealand is a micro-nation-principality that doesn't have world recognition, and I consider it a country, and in 2002-3, the population of Sealand was at twenty-seven people).
In all seriousness, Even though Australia (Or Oceania) wasn't discovered until like, early-mid 1500's-late 1700's, you should have put it on there, and even though Antarctica was discovered in the late 1800's- EARLY EARLY 1900's, you should have put it in there.
And while there were internal and external wars (almost every country had civil or partisan-related wars), during peacetime almost every country managed to thrive and have their population grown.
Of course, after 1913 came World War One and the Great Depression; the Mexican Revolution entered its most destructive phase; Peru and Chile saw guano and natural nitrate got devalued and replaced by chemical nitrate... Several things that made a dent (but in fact didn't halt) in population growth.
And Oceania
Africa and te USA probably signed the Constitution of 2000
Europe said they good and what do they get? low pop.