How we became
more than 7 billion – humanity’s population explosion, visualised
From our origins in Africa, humans began migrating around the globe
roughly 100,000 years ago. But it was only with the advent of agriculture about
12,000 years ago that our population started to swell to more than a million.
This data visualisation from the American Museum of Natural History beautifully
charts humanity’s stunning – and increasingly alarming – exponential expansion
to our current population of roughly 7.4 billion.
Video by the American Museum of Natural History
Producer: Laura Moustakerski
Animator: Shay Krasinksi
2 December 2016
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