From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: How many people have lived in the world?
Date: 25 Oct 2000 11:43:12 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.math
Summary: [missing]

In article <8t60b4$gif6m$1@ID-52523.news.cis.dfn.de>,
Rene <mga010@gmx.de> wrote:
>would have a factor of 1000, alowing 6 million peapople to live around 1000
>AC. This sounds reasonable to me.

Estimates of the world population in 1000 AD vary from 254 to 345 million.

See http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldhis.html for a list.

There is an article by Carl Haub on the subject from 1995:

  http://www.teleport.com/~popco/data/everlivd.htm

which estimates that the total as 105 billion, with 5.5% (1 in 18)
alive in 1995.

-- Richard
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