SOC312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ansley J. Coale, Doubling Time, World Economy
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Ldcs less developed countries (82. 4% world total population) Population growth the most in the past 200/300 years or so depending on which region. Population increase is quite irregular due to crisis, conflict with other groups, most recent history due to economy. In the history, it was due to plague, conflict, wars, new world coming contact to the aboriginal world. Population increased due to over coming environment and settlement size increase, permanent settlement, soil, growing crops. System of domination by making better tools, weapons. Bad thing was that it was also a reason for spreading diseases due to port. Supporting larger pop was also due to spread of disease. It lead to modern day methods of curing the problems. Renaissance was possible due to lesson learned and devastation that was learned during the plague time. World population growth through broad historical periods and projections. 10 thousand years ago population was only 8 million. **it took 2000,000 years for our human pop.
