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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Vaccines/antibiotics/modern medicine, sanitation, plentiful food.

For a huge proportion of human history people were dying of illness, infection, treatable injuries, malnutrition or starvation at a rate orders of magnitude higher than the present and recent past.