How many people lived on Earth?

Today, it's hard to imagine our entire planet populated by fewer people than we currently find in a single major city.

What Was Earth's Population Through History?

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T oday, it's hard to imagine our entire planet populated by fewer people than we currently find in a single major city. And tens of thousands of years ago, it would have been shocking — and quite possibly terrifying — to imagine a world in which humans had built settlements as vast and crowded as those that exist today.

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