Excuse me, if this is the wrong sub for this but I’m genuinly confused. According to [this graph](https://flic.kr/p/5T5hkE) I found by accident, the world population barely increased at all between 1300 and 1900. And then it suddenly took off like crazy. What caused this sudden fast increment of the world population?
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Before that date people generally had a high child mortality and as a result, many babies (4-8) oh which only a certain number reached ~5 years. The advances in medicine, better access to food and as the same time motorisation (or earlier, trains) meant that now you can mostly solve high child mortality.
At this time, we have an imbalance, since people where still having meant babies at the rate of before while having them all survive, which didn’t happen before. It took some time before this changed (very simply, look at first, second and third world countries where this is one of the many reasons they are called like this) and modern contraception (not that they’re weren’t contraception methods before) arrived.
This is the main reason why there have been increases in the world population, and it will likely continue to grow until either all the world had reached a new population ‘ceiling’ or until eventually one of these systems fail and there is a decline. Aka, mass starvation, drinking water problems, …
There is a name attached to this, but I’m writing this from my bed and can’t be bothered to look it up. 😀
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