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Climate, history & governance · OWID

Population (long-run)

HYDE and Gapminder historical reconstructions joined to UN WPP. The chart reaches 10,000 BCE upstream; our snapshot keeps 1800 onward, where the annual series begins.

Indicator ID
owid:population-long-run
Unit
people
Source family
OWID

Source citation: HYDE (2023); Gapminder (2022); UN WPP (2024) — with major processing by Our World in Data

Compare Population (long-run) across countries · Rank countries by Population (long-run).

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