These graphs give information about the growth of global population from 1400 till 2000 and its distribution over different continents at the beginning of the 20th 21th centuries. Overall, the world population rose sharply from less than 500 million in the 1400s to 6 billion in 2000, a growth of 12 times over 600 years. The increase was more dramatic after 1800, and only in the 1700s was there an obvious decline ( 1.2 billion to 0.9 billion ) The pie charts show that in both 1900 and 2000, Asia accounted for the largest share of the world population, more than half, followed by Europe. But both continents saw a decline in their percentage of that one, the former from 60% to 54% and the latter from 24% to 14%. On the other hand, the it grew considerably from 4,5% to 13% and from 3% to 8% resoectively in Africa & Latin America. North America showed no change, remaining constant at 5% of the broad citizen while other areas approxiamtely climbed up 3.5% ( 6% - 2.5% ). In conclusion, most of the population growth occured in developing countries in Africa and Latin America .
Posted on: Thu, 08 May 2014 07:51:52 +0000
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