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The very first plot is a textbook and misleading. If we consider only recorded history (~10k) then today the more people alive than ever lived

• xorfish 5y ago
  No, halve of the people that ever died, did so in the last two thousand years. Less than 9 billion people lived before the agricultural revolution.
  • d0mine 5y ago
    there 100 000 000 000 come from? it doesn't make any sense