Comparing Population Growth: China, India, Africa, Latin America, Western Europe, United States

by Catherine on December 9, 2007

in Country Growth from 1500, VE Infographics

This graph shows the dramatic change in population over the last 500 years in China, India, Africa, Latin America, Western Europe, and United States. (Note: the dip in 1950 of India’s population was due to the partitioning of India creating Pakistan.)

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Data estimates for population from Angus Maddison Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Groningen.

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1 Gyan

Are the population indices along the vertical axis meant to be prefixed with a $ sign?

2 Catherine

Nope, I fixed it so the $ should be gone. Thanks!

3 Scott Free

It seems you didn’t include the Native Americans in you chart. Some estimates put their population somewhere around 500,000 to 1 million before the genocide.

4 Alan: Scott Free: do you realise that 1 million people is less than the thickness of the line on that graph? The first scale marker on the Y axis is for a population of 200 million. The US population in 1500 looks like it is just above zero to me, which is consistent with about 1 million people.

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