{"id": 736810, "name": "World population", "unit": "people", "description": "Total world population.", "createdAt": "2023-07-04T18:06:20.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-03-14T14:59:07.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "-10000-2100", "datasetId": 6108, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "world_population", "catalogPath": "grapher/demography/2023-07-03/world_population_comparison/world_population_comparison#world_population", "type": "int", "dataChecksum": "9979070149558522774", "metadataChecksum": "-7318321048451177403", "datasetName": "Historical world population comparison (various sources, 2023.1)", "datasetVersion": "2023-07-03", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "people"}, "schemaVersion": 1, "presentation": {}, "source": {"id": 28248, "name": "Multiple sources compiled by Our World in Data (2023)", "dataPublishedBy": "Multiple sources compiled by Our World in Data (2023)", "dataPublisherSource": "", "link": "", "retrievedDate": "", "additionalInfo": "\nAmong others these are the original source:\n\n\u2022 McEvedy, Colin and Richard Jones, 1978, \"Atlas of World Population History\", Facts on File, New York, pp. 342-351.\n\u2022 Biraben, Jean-Noel, 1980, \"An Essay Concerning Mankind's Evolution, Population\", Selected Papers, December, table 2.\n\u2022 Durand, John D., 1974, \"Historical Estimates of World Population: An Evaluation\", University of Pennsylvania, Population Center, Analytical and Technical Reports, Number 10, table 2.\n\u2022 Haub, Carl, 1995, \"How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?\" Population Today, February, p. 5.\n\u2022 Thomlinson, Ralph, 1975, \"Demographic Problems, Controversy Over Population Control\", Second Edition, Table 1.\n\u2022 United Nations, 1999, The World at Six Billion, Table 1, \"World Population From\" Year 0 to Stabilization, p. 5,\n\u2022 U.S. Census Bureau (USCB), 2012, Total Midyear Population for the World: 1950-2050.\n\u2022 Michael Kremer (1993) \"Population Growth and Technological Change: One Million B.C. to 1990\", Quarterly Journal of Economics., August 1993, pp.681-716.\n\u2022 Klein Goldewijk K, Beusen A, Janssen P (2010) \"Long term dynamic modeling of global population and built-up area in a spatially explicit way: HYDE 3.1\". 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