Why has the human population increased so much in the last few centuries, although we actually invented effective birth control methods?

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Why has the human population increased so much in the last few centuries, although we actually invented effective birth control methods?

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Longevity is partly a factor but infant mortality is a bigger one

There are so many fewer things that kill you now…

200 years ago if you lived in a city Cholera was a huge risk. So was influenza

But that isn’t the whole story. Birth rates very well might see a decrease in population in the next century or so.