Science Bulletins: Human Population Through Time It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion. But growth has begun slowing, as women have fewer babies on average. When will our global population peak? And how can we minimize our impact on Earth’s resources, even as we approach 11 billion? | American Museum of Natural History

37K views · 677 reactions | Check out this history of human population that Population Connection created for Science On a Sphere! Each dot represents 1 million people! Read more and see the full movie with narrative text here: https://sos.noaa.gov/datasets/world-population-movie/ | NOAA Science On a Sphere | Facebook