Human Population Through Time (Updated in 2023)

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  • Опубликовано: 11 янв 2025

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  • @Gandhi_Physique
    @Gandhi_Physique Год назад +3904

    I felt like I was experiencing an extremely unsafe level of radiation exposure

    • @SoupyMittens
      @SoupyMittens Год назад +178

      my gieger counter wont stop clicking

    • @sphericalcat1434
      @sphericalcat1434 Год назад +49

      fairly proportional to the average human radiation exposure over time, since more people = more radiation

    • @megaflux7144
      @megaflux7144 Год назад +9

      i mean you were looking at a screen so whos to say whats safe and what isnt.

    • @cessnacitation-x
      @cessnacitation-x Год назад +19

      ​@@megaflux7144You're kidding right?

    • @megaflux7144
      @megaflux7144 Год назад +3

      @@cessnacitation-x no, its really a thing. theres radiation all around us all the time, whos to say how much is really safe?

  • @Pheminon1
    @Pheminon1 Год назад +1585

    I remember being a kid in the early 2000s and hearing that there were only 6 billion people on the earth. Crazy how fast it can go

    • @MSTF-o4h
      @MSTF-o4h Год назад +151

      When I was a kid in the 2010s, I liked reading books. From there I know the world population is 7 billion. It was unexpected that we could reach 8 billion in 2023, this fast.

    • @ahmadgilanii
      @ahmadgilanii Год назад +119

      @@MSTF-o4hThey used to tell us the world population would reach 8B by 2050. I was shocked when it happened 27 years earlier lol.

    • @mariotheundying
      @mariotheundying Год назад +44

      ​@@ahmadgilanii in the 2010s I read it would reach 8 billion in 2020, yeah prob was accurate but something unexpected came up

    • @kevanbodsworth9868
      @kevanbodsworth9868 Год назад +38

      3.5 billion when I was born 1950,It will like triple before I go ,,It is exponential now,

    • @rustyshackleford234
      @rustyshackleford234 Год назад +27

      Don’t worry, it’s expected to peak around 9-11 billion before falling again in 2100.

  • @KentoKei
    @KentoKei Год назад +1005

    I find it interesting that in only 6/7 years, the predictions for the world population during the next century have changed so much, from peaking at over 11 billion to some people predicting peaks at under 10 billion, really shows us how much things can change in the world of demographics

    • @franzschubertv2874
      @franzschubertv2874 Год назад +46

      Within 10% seems fairly close for projections out 75+ years.

    • @richardb8104
      @richardb8104 Год назад +17

      Almost like people at the top have a plan of some kind.

    • @53Strat
      @53Strat Год назад

      Imagine those predictions, we must be controlled to some degree;p

    • @franzschubertv2874
      @franzschubertv2874 Год назад +32

      @@53Strat almost everywhere in the world is under control. The only major problem is Africa. Go look at the stats.

    • @53Strat
      @53Strat Год назад

      @@franzschubertv2874 China is going to control Africa. Why do you think there is war in eastern europe?

  • @Zerbey
    @Zerbey Год назад +353

    Human population has more than doubled in my lifetime. Crazy to think about.

    • @ShanghaiRooster
      @ShanghaiRooster Год назад +37

      Around 1950, when David Attenborough began his broadcasting career, there were around 2.53 billion people on Earth. If the 8 billion claimed in this video is accurate, that's a tripling of the human population in a little over 70 years.

    • @kevinbwtauer4190
      @kevinbwtauer4190 Год назад +4

      Things are happening now

    • @r.chavez5513
      @r.chavez5513 Год назад +1

      @@kevinbwtauer4190 oh its happening

    • @r.chavez5513
      @r.chavez5513 Год назад

      @user-uk8tl3xy9e yup

    • @r.chavez5513
      @r.chavez5513 Год назад

      @user-uk8tl3xy9e its unsustainable everything needs a balance

  • @Yabe_uke
    @Yabe_uke Год назад +253

    When I went to primary school I was told we were 6 billion. 2 billion more humans in 30 years, counting all the ones we have lost is just an absurd number, damn.

    • @mato4334
      @mato4334 Год назад

      humans kill more animals in a week than the total number of humans throughout history.
      imagine being brought into existence just because someone wants to kill you and refuses to eat vegetables.

    • @tacnomel2591
      @tacnomel2591 Год назад +24

      What that means is there is more than 2 billion people who are younger than you

    • @JohnSmith-cb6qx
      @JohnSmith-cb6qx Год назад +5

      In the middle ages the average life expectancy was 10-12 years, meaning most humans never made it past childhood. Always good to remind ourselves to be grateful to live in a time of relative prosperity and health.

    • @Yabe_uke
      @Yabe_uke Год назад +30

      @@JohnSmith-cb6qx The life expectancy was 30-40, what the hell are you talking about?

    • @sadge0
      @sadge0 Год назад +1

      @@JohnSmith-cb6qx it's a complete nonsense, there are lots of videos and articles on that topic

  • @susanne5803
    @susanne5803 Год назад +800

    We humans haven't actually witnessed any large continental drift. Those timelines, distances and numbers are really hard to fully grasp. Thank you very much!

    • @DecadeAgoGaming
      @DecadeAgoGaming Год назад +84

      Australia is the fastest moving landmass, and in the time it has been inhabited by humans (65 000 years) it has moved north almost 4.5 kilometers!

    • @susanne5803
      @susanne5803 Год назад +13

      @@DecadeAgoGaming Thank you! But would our forebears have noticed - except for earthquakes maybe?

    • @DecadeAgoGaming
      @DecadeAgoGaming Год назад +26

      @@susanne5803 nope

    • @jamesn.economou9922
      @jamesn.economou9922 Год назад +27

      We witnessed the end of the ice age. Sea levels rose 300 feet in less than 100 years. They didn't say anything about that event, that almost wiped out humans on earth. Why didn't they?

    • @2killnspray9
      @2killnspray9 Год назад +5

      It's important to understand that the population is lowering in some countries and exploding in others.
      The only reason in developed countries the population is still rising is due to immigration.

  • @MelissaAideePenaRamos
    @MelissaAideePenaRamos Год назад +134

    I've been using this magnificent video in my social studies classes, and I really appreciate you've updated it. Thank you so so much!

    • @AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory
      @AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory  Год назад +23

      Glad it was helpful!

    • @JakeKoenig
      @JakeKoenig Год назад

      Really? So you're teaching your social studies class that white people were the only ones to ever own slaves? Because that's what this video is claiming. Maybe you should teach your class factual history, not woke propaganda.

    • @marcellakramer5871
      @marcellakramer5871 Год назад +2

      ​​@@AmericanMuseumofNaturalHistory God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.” Genesis 1:28

    • @ToxicDany
      @ToxicDany 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@marcellakramer5871полный бред сивой кобылы.
      И я рад, что ты не поймешь смысла этого фразеологизма НИКОГДА 🤣

    • @marcellakramer5871
      @marcellakramer5871 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@ToxicDany "The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.'" Psalm 14:1

  • @GuidoMillonezz
    @GuidoMillonezz Год назад +31

    I visualized more in this infographic than if read a whole article, new generations are lucky to have this level of sophistication.

  • @WTH1812
    @WTH1812 Год назад +133

    When I was a sophomore in college, world population topped 4 billion for the first time. I'm not all that old now (compared to your typical redwood tree). It's taken about 40 years to double to near 8 billion.
    Declining birth rates across Europe, Canada, US, Japan, and China are at the tipping point of an avalanche of population distribution changes.
    In a way it will all come down to a decades old question:
    "Today it's oil. Tomorrow it will be water. What lengths will a government go to to make sure it has enough?"
    A hint may be in the excellent 1975 film, "3 Days of the Condor". Also worth watching for the cutting edge technology in use in the film.

    • @distrologic2925
      @distrologic2925 Год назад +2

      wait what

    • @쿡쿡쿡쿡-e3h
      @쿡쿡쿡쿡-e3h Год назад +8

      WHY NOT SOUTH KOREA AVERAGE FERTILITY IS 0.7 AND IS GOING DOWN UNIMAGINALLY FAST

    • @Super-Godzilla99
      @Super-Godzilla99 Год назад

      the birth rates are only dropping in the usa and 3th world country`s, not europe or asia.
      in europe and asia the birth rates are increasing for over 30 years now. real datas are prove of that, not that stupid goverment datas that want you too panic about it.
      i life in germany and in the last 3 years the population has increased over 4 million, too now almost 90 million. and that only in 3 years, and it shows that the birthrates are going up, the population in the usa and most 3th world country`s is declining in the same span of time.
      i have no datas about australia but it is the same like in europe or asia i think.
      in africa there are no correct datas available because thes country`s there are in an constant war with themselves or other nations invading them. but it is estimated that the population there is the same, sometimes goes up sometimes down no increase or decline imensly.
      this coment is just a showing of statistics nothing more nothing less, and it is not intended too insult anyone. these are only the available numbers with the estimated black numbers added that can`t be count officialy.
      black numbers mean : birth and death numbers that can`t be seen in official statistics because the people are not official listed in a country. every country in the world has them, they are at most 5 - 15 % on top of the official numbers of population of an country.

    • @alexspader
      @alexspader Год назад +5

      fertility rates are very high in poor countries and there are many poor countries in the world unlike developed ones. some people from these countries don't have any education about sex let alone protection.

    • @juanjuan5698
      @juanjuan5698 Год назад +7

      @@alexspader The average person will be african or african mixed in the near future. European/asian phenotypes will slowly disappear as their birth rates continue to plummet.

  • @burgundian-peanuts
    @burgundian-peanuts Год назад +191

    The 20th century was insane--the population nearly *quadrupled* in a single century (from 1.6B to 6.1B).
    Compare that to, say, 300-1300 AD, when it took a whole millennium for the human population to double.

    • @desimrrrobot123
      @desimrrrobot123 Год назад +15

      It's just like cell Devision ,
      If a cell is dividing for 60 minutes
      Than last minute growth is equal to 59 minutes

    • @fastfingers110
      @fastfingers110 6 месяцев назад +1

      It's called globalization

    • @astronova3508
      @astronova3508 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@fastfingers110industrialization and technology is what allowed globalization though

    • @edsanville
      @edsanville 5 месяцев назад +2

      And it was an incredibly chaotic and tragic century, to be honest.

    • @MattMayo-bw9vr
      @MattMayo-bw9vr 4 месяца назад

      Technological break threws medical break threws and so on

  • @C.Zacarias-Main
    @C.Zacarias-Main Год назад +562

    It is hard to believe that we have 8 billion individuals on Planet Earth...that is mind blowing!! 😳🤯

    • @proveritate9312
      @proveritate9312 Год назад +36

      In 1972 there were 3 billion people. Listen to the song by The Archies, Summer prayer for peace.

    • @spaceman081447
      @spaceman081447 Год назад

      @andrewgrey6226
      RE: "You can stand all 8 billion people in military formation and they would fit inside Los Angeles city limits, I've heard."
      Well, let's see if that's true.
      1 sq mi = 27,878,400 sq ft
      Area of Los Angeles County = 4,753 sq mi = 132,506,035,200 sq ft
      8,000,000,000 people on the planet
      132,506,035,200 sq ft / 8,000,000,000 people = 16.563 sq ft per person

    • @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx
      @TheSpaceEnthusiast-vl6wx Год назад +2

      True!

    • @SK69europe
      @SK69europe Год назад +30

      @andrewgrey6226 I don't know how "military formation" is defined, but if every person occupies 1 square meter (10.8 sq ft) 8 billion ppl easily fit inside Los Angeles COUNTY (4.085 sq miles) + an extra 2.5 billion people.

    • @justinklenk
      @justinklenk Год назад +7

      ​@@SK69europe
      On the surface, that makes more sense to me - county vs city area.

  • @Incred_Canemian
    @Incred_Canemian Год назад +233

    [Pointing at the screen when it gets to today] There I am, THERE I AM!

    • @qwertycoupe
      @qwertycoupe Год назад +8

      Im just picturing the decaprio meme 😂😂

    • @2killnspray9
      @2killnspray9 Год назад +4

      It's important to understand that the population is lowering in some countries and exploding in others.
      The only reason in developed countries the population is still rising is due to immigration.

    • @ashleydaniel3215
      @ashleydaniel3215 Год назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant comment

    • @alexk9642
      @alexk9642 9 месяцев назад +1

      [pointing at my circle on the map]

    • @Smile200-z4y
      @Smile200-z4y 3 месяца назад

      There i am gary there i am

  • @MICHAELREDMAN-f3n
    @MICHAELREDMAN-f3n Год назад +61

    It's really great that you updated this! I really liked the last one but the projections have changed drastically!

  • @MrJpenado
    @MrJpenado Год назад +107

    It always occurred to me that the discovery and mass production of penicillin has to be a huge factor in the world’s growth population. About 1942.
    It makes more sense as a milestone than World War II.
    Anyhow the video it’s very nice.
    Thanks

    • @titaniumballs8757
      @titaniumballs8757 Год назад +11

      The Green Revolution was what allowed us to produce so much food to sustain such a large population

    • @jakeg3126
      @jakeg3126 Год назад +3

      I’ve taken penicillin everyday for over 20 years and I’m 34. I have no spleen and had cancer so that is on of my many pills because it boosts my immune system a bit

    • @corallaroc2946
      @corallaroc2946 Год назад +1

      Yes it would have been interesting to see a (death vs birth) or (average expected age) graph here.

    • @ShanghaiRooster
      @ShanghaiRooster Год назад +6

      @@corallaroc2946 In Europe, something like 40-50% of children died before their fifth birthday right into the first half of the 19th century. The development of modern medicine in that century and into the 20th is the single biggest driver of population growth, especially in what used to be termed the third world. Growing prosperity, declining infant mortality (and emancipation of women) in 'the west' acted as an anchor, hence declining birth rates in Europe, Japan and elsewhere.

    • @corallaroc2946
      @corallaroc2946 Год назад +1

      @@ShanghaiRooster Thanks for your response. :-)

  • @AbjectOyster38
    @AbjectOyster38 Год назад +20

    crazy to think there are more people on the internet than have been alive for most of human history

  • @bradycall1889
    @bradycall1889 Год назад +171

    I cannot believe we’re actually at 8 billion by now. The last time I checked it was around 7.8 billion.

    • @kingki1953
      @kingki1953 Год назад

      human is viruses for earth

    • @mikeburns703
      @mikeburns703 Год назад +63

      We reached about 3.5 billion about 1970. It took more than 10,000 years to get there. Now we have more than doubled again in only 50 years. I submit, that this growth trajectory is unsustainable.

    • @Tailspin80
      @Tailspin80 Год назад +6

      Boris Johnson’s been at it again.

    • @Gandhi_Physique
      @Gandhi_Physique Год назад +11

      I wasn't thinking about it, but yeah when I was a teen it was 7 billion. Dang

    • @DarthMackzodroginstomp
      @DarthMackzodroginstomp Год назад +7

      More like 8.3B, these estimation models are very outdated.

  • @sanexpreso2944
    @sanexpreso2944 Год назад +52

    It is curious how the settlement of America occurred, so far the oldest settlement found is in Chile, far to the south, it is called Monte Verde and dates from 14,000 B.C., scientists have not found an older settlement in Canada or the United States, it is now believed that possibly they first sailed along the coast to settle well south and did not enter the continent.

    • @michaeldeierhoi4096
      @michaeldeierhoi4096 Год назад

      The oldest verified sign of humans in the Americas was from 21,000 years ago from footprints found at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico a few ago.

    • @franceshorton918
      @franceshorton918 Год назад +5

      Perhaps they were from islands in the South Pacific? Blown by 'Roaring 40's' trade winds or El Nino storms landward to South America? But they must've had males and females on board plus the means of survival in an uninhabited land?

    • @sandal_thong
      @sandal_thong Год назад +18

      Or evidence of settlements along the coasts were lost with sea level rise during the inter-glaciation period we're now in.

    • @StuffandThings_
      @StuffandThings_ Год назад +5

      @@franceshorton918 No, the Pacific was peopled quite recently, within the past few thousand years and within the past thousand for some parts. Its pretty unlikely that they came through that route.

    • @gorillax1374
      @gorillax1374 Год назад +15

      Ansence of evidence is not evidence of absence

  • @dehiie
    @dehiie Год назад +184

    I love seeing these types of videos! They're beautifully done and so educational, I'm nearly in tears, thank you for this video, and the previous one, which I also watched and loved!

    • @mato4334
      @mato4334 Год назад +3

      yeah in tears because we suck and we are everywhere

    • @dehiie
      @dehiie Год назад +1

      @@mato4334 that also

    • @ExperienceEric
      @ExperienceEric Год назад

      Its sad to see man thriving as a species? Man you young people today have been completely brainwashed by Marxism and climate religion.

    • @gmeadows62
      @gmeadows62 Год назад

      Nearly in tears? Man up.

  • @kyojin2455
    @kyojin2455 Год назад +105

    Whole of India is yellow in the last frame😂

    • @pubgmobileclashroyale4725
      @pubgmobileclashroyale4725 11 месяцев назад +11

      Sus, they started doing that very fast 💀

    • @tylerclayton6081
      @tylerclayton6081 11 месяцев назад +14

      Sad thing is they’re all extremely poor living in slums. Their average salary is like $2 a day

    • @Indra_Srivastava_
      @Indra_Srivastava_ 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@tylerclayton6081 man pulling information from his qss

    • @StoogesFan
      @StoogesFan 11 месяцев назад

      they must not believe in birth control of anykind

    • @sayakdash_612
      @sayakdash_612 10 месяцев назад +45

      ​@@tylerclayton6081situation is changing and your data isn't true
      Please refresh
      India is a land of diversity

  • @GarudAtma
    @GarudAtma Год назад +48

    In India population growth rate is declining already since last 10 years. Despite people live minimalistically due to cultural or economic reasons, resources felt limited. And the public is demanding a strict 2 child policy to control poor having more than 2 children.
    Don't be sad when you see a declining population. You don't know the headache of living within too much crowd. The rat race, high property prices, lower wages, cut-throat competition, less clean conditions, etc

    • @odonnelly46
      @odonnelly46 Год назад +20

      Global population NEEDS to go down. That is a GOOD thing.

    • @KuchNahiBasAiseHi
      @KuchNahiBasAiseHi Год назад +15

      @@odonnelly46 yes agreed..in India we are trying to do this....annual fertility rate has come down from 6.0 in 1950s to 2.1(ideal 100% replacement rate) in 2021. In India, it should further be down to 1.5-1.6 to reduce overall population gradually and also to avoid Japan like situation.

    • @yumi-e2o
      @yumi-e2o Год назад

      1.5? Go get education. @@KuchNahiBasAiseHi

    • @snipz127
      @snipz127 Год назад +8

      @@odonnelly46 No it isn't. A population decline will lead to less technological advances and declining economies which tends to lead to wars.

    • @gigschad
      @gigschad Год назад +1

      Resources shortage is most likely because the consumption of the riches and you blame poor people who barely got food

  • @TheBadRandolph
    @TheBadRandolph Год назад +49

    Brilliant visualization, nicely done. Thank you!

  • @beththomas6514
    @beththomas6514 Год назад +215

    Great way of presenting the numbers. Some labels that could have been included are one for the Inca Empire in South America when it was at its peak, one noting the "indigenous population steep decline due to European diseases" in the Americas during the 1500s, and one noting the introduction of modern medicine.

    • @MrDogfish83
      @MrDogfish83 Год назад +23

      They mention modern medicine in the "industrial revolution" label. That same label could have specifically mentioned the isolation of nitrogen, which massively increased our food production

    • @Tailspin80
      @Tailspin80 Год назад +6

      I’d like to see the graphs of atmospheric CO2 and average global temperatures running alongside. The population might be peaking but these other parameters just keep rising.

    • @wandererstraining
      @wandererstraining Год назад +4

      @@Tailspin80 Yeah, I doubt that we'll make it to 10B people now. We messed up the environment badly enough that harvests will probably be impacted negatively and that we'll lose huge chunks of human habitat and arable land.

    • @Tailspin80
      @Tailspin80 Год назад +11

      @@wandererstraining There was always going to be a peak population. It happens in nature when food supplies are abundant and there no predators. It’s usually followed by a rapid decline as something gives way. It is very unusual for a rapid rise to be followed by a long plateau, but let’s hope the normal rules don’t apply to us.

    • @wiwlarue4097
      @wiwlarue4097 Год назад

      Firstly because numbers never lie ;) ppl who made up the numbers do. How would they know what was the earth's population prior to all the continents were discovered? How many lived in the gigantic forests of south america, the jungles of asia, china, indonesia? I imagine what a census would have looked like up until the 19th century in the african continent? How reliable would they have been? Secondly Why do we trust any information that is arriving at us through official channels when we always have a suspicion or we know for a fact they have an agenda, they lie and the facts are distorted to fit the plan? Whose plan? The billionare's plan. I smell population reduction propaganda.

  • @josephbelisle5792
    @josephbelisle5792 Год назад +50

    Well done. I would only argue the lack of population numbers in the America's in the timeline. We are constantly discovering more and more evidence of habitation throughout the millenia in the America's. I love the closing data/graphics.

    • @sandal_thong
      @sandal_thong Год назад

      Yeah, due to European diseases wiping out vast numbers of Native Americans before they were contacted, we don't have good census numbers. I imagine there should have been a higher number then a drop or leveling off of world population around 1600 or so, just like there was a drop with the Black Death in the 1200s.

    • @justinklenk
      @justinklenk Год назад +6

      Was wondering that myself

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM Год назад +1

      The video showed at least 7 million people already in the Americas at year 1.

    • @TimberlakeTigerGirl
      @TimberlakeTigerGirl Год назад +3

      True enough but it's been difficult to find historical records of Mesoamerica and how many people were on both continents by the time the European colonizers arrived. Unfortunately they didn't exactly keep records of how many Indigenous Americans died upon initial contact so we can only estimate.

    • @RatatRatR
      @RatatRatR 10 месяцев назад

      Habitation, yes -- but that doesn't mean there hundreds of millions of them or anything like that.

  • @RixMorales
    @RixMorales Год назад +63

    It's amazing how far we've come in just a span of 200 years

  • @leebailey229
    @leebailey229 Год назад +26

    In 1969 when NASA landed on the moon, there were 3.6 Billion people on the planet. Now roughly 8 Billion. Thats a huge exponential curve. Doesn't bode well.

    • @prabhavbhagat292
      @prabhavbhagat292 Месяц назад

      some scientists are now saying that population decline may be more of a problem than overpopulation

  • @AchyutChaudhary
    @AchyutChaudhary Год назад +29

    Just curious, what apps/ software/ websites have helped you make this animations in your lovely video :)

  • @Max_Jacoby
    @Max_Jacoby Год назад +26

    Can't wait for a population video of Mars.

    • @Quareque
      @Quareque Год назад +1

      Population of rocks?

    • @LifeisajokeER
      @LifeisajokeER 9 месяцев назад +2

      im sure someone in the future will be looking at our comment and laughing at us while there are over 1000 people on mars@@Quareque

  • @woofowl2408
    @woofowl2408 Год назад +12

    Not sure about other regions, but those dots representing a million people are wildly inaccurate in regards to Australia. Perth was not the first population to have a million people (Sydney was) and didn't have a million people until 1984. Albany (WA) has never had even close to a million people (current pop. 35,000), even all of WA excluding Perth does not have a million people.

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM Год назад +11

      They don't represent cities.

    • @wesichi
      @wesichi Год назад +7

      @@thorr18BEM a dot represents an area with 1 million people. that area does not have even close to one million so it should not be put there. it is very misleading and an awful graphic

    • @bunthoeunhas549
      @bunthoeunhas549 10 месяцев назад

      Sydney
      Melbourne
      Brisbane
      Perth
      Adelaide
      Are the only areas or cities with over 1 million

    • @woofowl2408
      @woofowl2408 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@bunthoeunhas549Yes and this video shows Albany as one of the "one million people" dots appearing at 4:19

  • @andrewhazlewood4569
    @andrewhazlewood4569 Год назад +15

    At first I thought the location of the dots related to population centres but realised there were dots to represent a million people in countries where the population was very dispersed. When the first dot in Australia was placed in Perth the concept of geographical representation lost any credibility.

    • @DevoteeOfAergia
      @DevoteeOfAergia Год назад +3

      Interesting observation
      On the contrary, in terms of India they were quite accurate in portraying the Gangetic Plains as the most densely populated from the very beginning and the other population centres also aligned up quite well with the ancient city centres that had come about.

    • @russellmiles2861
      @russellmiles2861 10 месяцев назад

      Yes, ought to be Melbourne

  • @roush26
    @roush26 5 месяцев назад +6

    Beginning: water dripping
    Middle: popcorn in a microwave
    End: walking around Chernobyl.

  • @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627
    @thevoicestoldmetoagain4627 Год назад +16

    Should've mentioned the average life expectancy as well. 150 years ago, we averaged like 40 years old. Now it nearly 80.

    • @samwallaceart288
      @samwallaceart288 10 месяцев назад

      That alone sways the numbers a lot. I'm curious what the softens would be if you just compare 20-40 year olds through the century

    • @originaldcjensen
      @originaldcjensen 4 месяца назад

      It’s not that we weren’t able to reach 80. It’s just that we kind of died along the way.

  • @nieldoesyt
    @nieldoesyt Год назад +15

    Absolutely loved the older version of this video, glad to see it updated!

  • @Fabian-bx5pm
    @Fabian-bx5pm 17 дней назад

    Wow, brilliant! Thank you for the visualization! The power of data clearly shows: our impact on the planet matters! Talking about sustainability today is by numbers of magnitude more relevant as 50 years ago!

  • @RexWeylerMusic
    @RexWeylerMusic 10 месяцев назад +1

    Well done, accurate, and the the four points of action at the end appear -- in my estimation -- perfect: 1. Family planning (population size); 2. Reduced Consumption (critical and inevitable); 3. Pollution controls (all our waste streams, including CO2, toxins, etc., and 4. Habitat protection (which will help slow the biodiversity collapse). Our growth theories are natural and once had some survival value, but these traits and instincts are now maladaptive. This video is a good reminder: We live on a finite planet.

  • @odonnelly46
    @odonnelly46 Год назад +11

    I remember when it reached 4, 5, 6, and 7 Billion. It was only 3.27 Billion when I was born.

  • @Asrdasa
    @Asrdasa Год назад +5

    2:19 “Small pox in Japan”
    I mean, really? The small pox arriving in Japan in the 8th century is an event of the historic calibre on par with the other events of world history highlighted on this same timeline?
    When Weeaboos are fawning over anime and manga, it’s one thing, but a completely another when they are surreptitiously polluting what should be a study and presentation of a serious subject matter by doing things through their biased glasses.
    That, or perhaps the video is not meant to be taken all that seriously.

    • @joemiller9931
      @joemiller9931 Год назад +1

      Woke left analysis of major events made politically correct- as per usual.

  • @mikeburns703
    @mikeburns703 Год назад +15

    I was a bit disappointed that there was not more detail regarding the period of about 20,000 years ago to 2,000 years ago. Is it that the information is not available? My understanding is that there were a number of great civilizations that rose and fell during this time period, and I was particularly interested in how these eras affected population growth/decline.

    • @jewersp
      @jewersp Год назад +4

      Which civilizations are you thinking of? Those "great" civilizations were really small when put in relation.

    • @lunais1433
      @lunais1433 Год назад +4

      As far as I know, there are not many credible global-level historical population estimates, but the Wikipedia page "Estimates of historical world population" and the "Population sources" page on Our World In Data give a pretty good overview. As for regional or country-level estimates for that time period, I have not found any that are credible, and those that claim to be credible have such high uncertainty that they are practically useless.

    • @lunais1433
      @lunais1433 7 месяцев назад

      Also, "The History of the World: Every Year" video (the newer version) by Ollie Bye has a world population ticker which broadly agrees with academic consensus. Check it out if interested.

  • @walthain
    @walthain 9 месяцев назад +4

    This is what Sir David Attenborough also said: We are a plague on the Earth ... Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now,” (in a radio interview on 21. January 2013).

  • @werelate_
    @werelate_ Год назад +16

    I remember watching a video like this a year ago. It was with my grandfather, while he was sick and he had just gotten back from the hospital. He was fine. 2 weeks later, he was dead. I miss you so much, PopPop.

  • @dehiie
    @dehiie Год назад +12

    It is crazy that our growth is barely a curve, it's almost two perpendicular lines with a little curve joining them

    • @dingusdingus2152
      @dingusdingus2152 Год назад +10

      This curve is called a parabola. It occurs when one of the axes is a number increasing exponentially.

    • @dehiie
      @dehiie Год назад +1

      @@dingusdingus2152 Thank you for telling me!

    • @Beerbatter1962
      @Beerbatter1962 Год назад +8

      I would say it's highly exponential rather than parabolic.

    • @dingusdingus2152
      @dingusdingus2152 Год назад +1

      @@Beerbatter1962 there is no such thing as highly exponential. An equation is either exponential or it's not. There are no degrees or gradations as in it's kind of sort of exponential, or this is more exponential than that. To think of it in this way is stupid. When you plot the numbers on a graph the line at a certain point swoops from horizontal to vertical describing a curve called a parabola, or parabolic curve. Standard terminology here, not trying to trick anyone. Should have paid more attention back in math class.

    • @Beerbatter1962
      @Beerbatter1962 Год назад +6

      @@dingusdingus2152 You are wrong again. The exponent in the exponential function does in fact control how exponential, or quickly, the curve ramps up. And maybe do a little research concerning population growth.

  • @Nebarus
    @Nebarus Год назад +14

    Now more than 8 billion... All needing fresh water, food, wood and other ressources every day plus polluting the environment with plastics, poop and chemicals... The madness is real...

  • @shayanraj7840
    @shayanraj7840 Год назад +8

    Oh my litlle beloved India

  • @ricardochao
    @ricardochao 2 месяца назад

    As a teacher, I use this video every year in my classes. Good job!

  • @goosedoesvideogames
    @goosedoesvideogames Год назад +1

    Thank you so much, as a kid I watched that video over an over and seeing a second version brings me memories

  • @knuckleslayer007
    @knuckleslayer007 Год назад +4

    You guys are awesome! Wish I could meet you

  • @CJMVector321190
    @CJMVector321190 Год назад +5

    My parents born in 1960 in their lifetime we went from 3b to 8billion. Crazy

    • @KS0102
      @KS0102 4 месяца назад

      My mother was born in 1936 and there were only 2.2 billion people.

  •  Год назад +4

    Very interesting video, thank you!

  • @roelwesterhof6581
    @roelwesterhof6581 8 месяцев назад +1

    Extremely useful for Moral Ambitions to slow down the growth. Will reduction of global poverty and exchange of information be the key for this challenge?

  • @daveh4893
    @daveh4893 2 месяца назад +1

    In 1900, California's population was around 1 million. In 2024, it's around 36 million. Crazy!

  • @ElMagoBasuraOficial
    @ElMagoBasuraOficial 5 месяцев назад +3

    I remember when population was just 7 billion in 2010s

  • @walthain
    @walthain Год назад +3

    THE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO OF THE WORLD!

  • @xarxos5274
    @xarxos5274 Год назад +9

    Industrialization is one hell of a drug!

  • @esoteric404
    @esoteric404 Год назад +2

    such a fascinating video. thanks for putting it together and for sharing it with us.

  • @Egan9orTheRobloxian
    @Egan9orTheRobloxian Год назад +2

    Ooh you updated it cool

  • @jason41a
    @jason41a Год назад +3

    i think it will peak around 2045-50 given there's no medical life extension miracle.
    then the economy, pension, elderely care, taxation, real estate, and everything will collapse catatropically.

  • @Why.not.so.serious
    @Why.not.so.serious Год назад +7

    Loved 1st part uploaded in 2015 peaking at 11 billion and now this one 8 years later at 10.5 billion. That's the only difference. Apt background music, awesome effects and visuals and that mountain after year 1950 remains same 🤣

    • @arman3291
      @arman3291 8 месяцев назад

      Because of the corona virus epidemy, peak population is stimated lower.

    • @Why.not.so.serious
      @Why.not.so.serious 8 месяцев назад

      @@arman3291 wait 10 more years and peak estimate will be down to 10 billion thanks to Inflation and environmental degradation

    • @arman3291
      @arman3291 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@Why.not.so.serious Yes, I agree. Also the growing number of highly educated people in the world is very influencial.

  • @Invictyn
    @Invictyn Год назад +4

    The Geiger Counter sounded like it was going mad near the end of the timeline.😂

  • @WildsDreams45
    @WildsDreams45 Год назад +1

    I think I understand why you posted this.
    What you're saying is that I need to move to Australia if I want to find surf breaks that are not so crowded. Thanks for the advice, dude!

  • @netsiteing
    @netsiteing 22 дня назад +1

    when did nations start recording how many people they had?

  • @kimngoc.1909
    @kimngoc.1909 5 месяцев назад +4

    The most disturbing and disgusting about human is we are too many.

    • @divinedragon17
      @divinedragon17 2 месяца назад

      and yet im still single

    • @bleen2995
      @bleen2995 23 дня назад

      We’re actually dropping in terms of population

  • @quagmyer7230
    @quagmyer7230 Год назад +5

    I personally believe human population has already reached it’s peak.

    • @Gustav_fringe
      @Gustav_fringe Год назад +2

      Africa still has a fertility rate of 4.0 with a massive population of 1.4 Billion

    • @user-jt3dw6vv4x
      @user-jt3dw6vv4x Год назад +1

      @@Gustav_fringe and they will eventually reach their peak.

    • @Gustav_fringe
      @Gustav_fringe Год назад +1

      @@user-jt3dw6vv4x estimates say that by 2100, Africa will have 4 billion people which will be the most in any continent. I don't think their peak will come anytime sooner

    • @MsVakong
      @MsVakong 8 месяцев назад

      Yes, according to some documentaries that I have seen, the world had the most births around 2006, and we have been declining since. The population is expected to grow to about 10 billion by 2100, then have a steep decline. Most Asian countries have an elderly population that will dramatically shrink by 2050. Europe and the US are not far behind. Africans will lead the population by 2100 as they have the youngest population, but people all over the world are having less children. The population will naturally shrink after 2100 when the people being born today pass away.

    • @blazer9547
      @blazer9547 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@Gustav_fringe definitely less than that

  • @BrisketChef
    @BrisketChef Год назад +3

    Is it just weird that the population counter noise is a Geiger counter?

  • @T4M1L0S
    @T4M1L0S Год назад

    Glad you did an updated version for 2023 since our global population has achieved 8 billion! ;)

  • @idkwhattodo8652
    @idkwhattodo8652 Год назад +1

    OH MY GOD
    THE OLD VIDEO I WATCHED MANY MANY TIMES AND IS VERY NOSTALGIC FOR ME
    TO SEE A NEW ONE RELEASE IS SURREAL.

  • @tacitus539
    @tacitus539 Год назад +7

    Cool video! I didn’t realize China and India grew their populations so early.

    • @funbarsolaris2822
      @funbarsolaris2822 Год назад +14

      Interestingly China and India have been the wealthiest and most advanced civilisations for the majority of humanity's history, there are theories suggesting the industrial revolution was an aberration and that it will return to that "status quo" again this century

    • @s9ka972
      @s9ka972 Год назад +7

      @@funbarsolaris2822 both countries have immense fertile land . There's virtually no part in Present India which didn't support agriculture .

    • @eddie31415
      @eddie31415 Год назад

      @@funbarsolaris2822 Europeans finding the American continent really fueled it all, I think.

    • @odonnelly46
      @odonnelly46 Год назад +1

      Interesting that India is now the most populous country in the world, and will remain so for at least two centuries (or more?)

    • @hello.667
      @hello.667 Год назад +1

      Hi from an Indian 😄

  • @annasamek5179
    @annasamek5179 Год назад +7

    Well done! thank you!

  • @malahammer
    @malahammer Год назад +3

    Well done, showing the Irish population decline during the Irish Famine in the mid to late 1800's and never getting back to what it was. I can only assume that everything portrayed is correct . Brilliant as always.

  • @hegyesipeter5457
    @hegyesipeter5457 Год назад +2

    After that exponential looking graph I am a bit skeptical of the leveling off prediction. Suddenly the you are the carbon they want to reduce stuff intruded my head.

  • @alfaroandrew
    @alfaroandrew 7 месяцев назад +1

    Back in my elementary school days, the population was 5 billion people. Now, just 30 years later, we've reached 8 billion. What rapid growth!
    Looking at the map, it's clear that at some point we'll have to deal with the need for expansion of the Chinese and Indian populations, who might start by dominating the steppes, while Africans could expand into the desert.

  • @tarik100tarik5
    @tarik100tarik5 Год назад +3

    We going to have to grow our own food soon as there won’t be enough to go around from markets

    • @montygill2835
      @montygill2835 Год назад

      I like to grow vegetables in the back gardens.

  • @Vermilion2049
    @Vermilion2049 Год назад +3

    It's like watching bacteria grow

  • @bobg9922
    @bobg9922 Год назад +12

    Without the details an alien seeing this might think that the Earth is experiencing a fungal infection LOL 😂

    • @thorr18BEM
      @thorr18BEM Год назад +1

      Our growth certainly looks viral in the video.

    • @thomasellis8586
      @thomasellis8586 Год назад +4

      Or terminal cancer...

    • @echodelta9
      @echodelta9 Год назад

      Fungal may wipe out soil bacteria, that would end surface life. In medicine it's already out of hand in some cases.

    • @claudiamanta1943
      @claudiamanta1943 Год назад +1

      A Petri dish 😄

    • @stevetennispro
      @stevetennispro Год назад

      The fun gals is why we expanded so fast. ;)

  • @gerrardjones28
    @gerrardjones28 Год назад

    Really well made video! Interesting to see all the events and baby boom!

  • @КириллИванов-щ1ш
    @КириллИванов-щ1ш 2 месяца назад

    Thank you for demonstration of this process on a big scale! This video would be perfect if you would display the dynamics of climatic, and geological processes that affected the great journey of the humanity along the way. That woud make our perseption of this path complete.

  • @deepmalarajeshkhanna5905
    @deepmalarajeshkhanna5905 Год назад +3

    1900:1.8b
    2023:8b
    ☻️👍🏻very fast

  • @australianmade2659
    @australianmade2659 Год назад +3

    It’s amazing how the shoreline never changed at the end of the ice age and no cities went underwater

  • @Electrostarboi207
    @Electrostarboi207 Год назад +3

    Why is India soo packed?

  • @lewiswilson3224
    @lewiswilson3224 Год назад +1

    I’m glad this got an update as I occasionally come back to this video lol

  • @David-p3u6p
    @David-p3u6p 4 месяца назад +2

    Density, why do people flock together in history?
    Safety in a flock, humans find safety in flocks?

  • @whyiamhere7770
    @whyiamhere7770 Год назад +7

    Whole Indian subcontinent is covered like crazy

    • @yumi-e2o
      @yumi-e2o Год назад +1

      Fertile land and Rice

    • @blazer9547
      @blazer9547 7 месяцев назад

      That too along desert zone like sahara

    • @Devon_Herman_
      @Devon_Herman_ 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@blazer9547Europe too we have to do something otherwise we'll cease to exist at least higher caste Indians are caucasoid

  • @aaronheaney2694
    @aaronheaney2694 Год назад +5

    Seems that it isn’t common knowledge that Australia has humans for more than 40000 years.

    • @Infinity-eb6mx
      @Infinity-eb6mx Год назад +8

      Those dots represent a million people. Probably no dots in Australia on the graphic as for a vast chunk of that 40,000 years it is quite likely the aboriginal population was under that figure. For example University of Wollongong estimates between 300,000 to 1,200,000 aboriginals in Australia at the dawn of European colonisation.

  • @angriboi
    @angriboi Год назад +3

    That sounded like a Geiger counter on purpose?

    • @ST-RTheProtogen
      @ST-RTheProtogen Год назад +1

      Yeah, we're about as dangerous to earth as radiation is to us, so it makes sense

  • @fedemartin900
    @fedemartin900 9 месяцев назад +1

    loved the background music!!!

  • @Lazymediasiblings
    @Lazymediasiblings 28 дней назад +1

    gotta love how the population growth visivly slows down when we get to the mongol empire

  • @rajat-ly2hx
    @rajat-ly2hx 5 месяцев назад +3

    India population now = world population in 1860

  • @gamerdaddy8597
    @gamerdaddy8597 Год назад +5

    Great video.
    There are too many people in this world. We need another planet. 🙂

  • @Javhaa5678
    @Javhaa5678 6 месяцев назад +2

    For the first time in 1992, while waiting for punishment in the teachers' room, the teachers entered the room when the break bell rang. The topic of their conversation turns to AIDS, and they don't even care about me. My math teacher suddenly said that AIDS is a disease lost from the med-laboratory. Because the world's population has spreaded too much. At the beginning of the 20th century, WP/world pop/ was only 1.5 billion, and it did not decrease even after 2 major wars. He continued that AIDS was produced in a secret lab to limit this. From here, my attention was focused on the fact that the population of the world 100 years ago was 1.5 billion. I, a 14-year-old living in small village about 10K people, thought that it is a disaster that the world has been around for 4.5 billion years, and people have been around for 200,000 years, but it has tripled in the last 100 years. Because I am the son of a nomadic people, we know that if one type of animal becomes too much, it causes disaster in that area. In the past, the natural balance was maintained by nature itself, but due to human greed, animals have decreased dramatically and some have even died out.. Pasture is very important for our lifestyle because we raise livestock for 4 seasons of the year. It is our tradition to co-exist as much as possible with the wildlife living in the area. If there have too many livestocks that exceed the grazing capacity, there will be problems. . Although we prepare hay in the fall, if we know that we will face a hard winter due to early cold, we reduce our livestock. Most of civilizations do not understand this rhythm of life, they see us as destroyers of nature. We see ourselves as living in harmony with nature. Recent i read positive news that this world pop growth is slowing. Such is the comment of an ordinary nomad concerned about global problems. Sry for my bad English and i used Google-Translator.

    • @leanordials8008
      @leanordials8008 4 месяца назад

      You have got it right. Greed is the main problem. I was 16 when I realized I wasn't having children because of over population. I discussed it with my future spouse and we agreed.

  • @Super-Godzilla99
    @Super-Godzilla99 Год назад +1

    now we reached almost 9 billion, the 10 billion mark is estimated that we reach it in around 10 years from now on, around 2035 - 2045.

  • @gabriellaa1091
    @gabriellaa1091 Месяц назад +2

    i wonder what it is about India and China that managed to keep everything balanced for 1000 years as those places were largely dense in terms of human population.

  • @DragonHeart-cm1tx
    @DragonHeart-cm1tx Год назад +4

    This is ridiculously inaccurate when it comes to the western hemisphere's populations, migration out of Africa, and migration into the western hemisphere. It is estimated that the European invasion killed 400 million Indigenous people from 1492 to 1900, 100 million of those people was in the United States and the obliteration continues to this very day. Orellana killed roughly 20 million Indigenous people in the Amazon alone. Throughout all 3 Americas there was truly immense trade mega-cities that would put London to shame, many were in the Amazon, but we also have Chaco Canyon, Cusco, Cahokia, Teotihuacan, and many others. Also, for most of this time shown, less than 1m Indigenous people lived in Australia? Seriously!? The time for the migration out of Africa is also in error, so too is the migration into the western hemisphere. The Solutreans coming across the Atlantic is ignored, so too is the visitation of all 3 Americas by roughly 60-75% of the rest of the planet before columbus. There were settlements in all 3 Americas that are 25k-600k years old. The pre-desert Sahara Savanah is also outright ignored. Who ever put this together needs to study history again!

    • @unclejoe7466
      @unclejoe7466 Год назад +3

      You forgot to mention Atlantis, the Mediterranean Valley, and the Alien invasions, as well as the crab people, mole people, and lizard people, though of course we can only count the human hybrids of these latter populations. Some people would also include Inner Earth populations, but they're crazy.

    • @BufordTGleason
      @BufordTGleason Год назад +1

      Perhaps while Europeans were killing all the indigenous peoples, their own population growth offset the reduction?

    • @joemiller9931
      @joemiller9931 Год назад +3

      No way with 400 million Indigenous people figure.

    • @blazer9547
      @blazer9547 7 месяцев назад

      400 million lmao.
      Biggest estimate is 100.
      Its mostly about 50-60 😂

    • @Brandenburg-Poznan
      @Brandenburg-Poznan 3 месяца назад

      This is ragebait I think

  • @jeffhoward1222
    @jeffhoward1222 Год назад +5

    What's hard to imagine is since my birth the population increased by over 5 billion people. That's an awful lot of CO2 and methane. The 1973 movie Solent Green comes to mind. Soylent Green's timeline was 2022 ironically.

    • @kxkxkxkx
      @kxkxkxkx Год назад +1

      Good for plants 🤔 oxygen was originally organic "pollution"

  • @Timfruhling
    @Timfruhling Год назад +7

    What a well made video concise and well put together and I liked the way the video ended too, not lecturing us to "save the planet" but to be cautious to save ourselves and our fellow life on this planet....

  • @SophieCheung
    @SophieCheung Год назад +1

    i feel like i just put a bag of popcorn into the microwave, and by the end of the video the entire bag finished popping

  • @hellobro7979
    @hellobro7979 4 месяца назад +2

    4:09 it sounded like We were going further and further in to the Pripyat Hospital with one of those toxicity detector thingy’s ☢️

  • @MH-ms1dg
    @MH-ms1dg Год назад +4

    This visualization is catchy, but it doesn’t do much service to more specific population changes over time
    Like how do you portray the 90% death of many Native American groups from smallpox when you don’t even have dots for them?

    • @sandal_thong
      @sandal_thong Год назад +1

      You'd have to have them in total population first and then the drop, assuming Old World population growth didn't offset it. These kind of graphs are interesting, but not definitive history, so the inaccuracies are why I haven't watched one in over a year.

    • @odonnelly46
      @odonnelly46 Год назад

      Not just Native Americans. For example, 300-400 Million people died of Smallpox in the 20th century alone, even though smallpox was eradicated by 1978.

  • @bernhardwieser8359
    @bernhardwieser8359 Год назад +6

    So I choose to have 3 kids instead of just 2.

    • @le_chat4911
      @le_chat4911 Год назад +1

      ....in fact, we're sooo much that we can allowed ourself to make wars that kill thousands daily....🙄 We're so much that the human life has no value at all... 🙄
      So women, you can give some rest to your tommy and don't worry about the futur of humanity 😏

    • @bernhardwieser8359
      @bernhardwieser8359 Год назад +1

      The global scale minority of the white people need to make as many babies as possible. @@le_chat4911

    • @Solaris_Paradox
      @Solaris_Paradox Год назад

      ​@@bernhardwieser8359I'm Native American these white colonizers occupying so-called "America" will soon be a minority in 2054, for the illegitimate state of "Canada" in 2036. Lol

    • @blazer9547
      @blazer9547 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@Solaris_Paradox aren't other immigrants and settlers coming in droves. They're not going back either

    • @blazer9547
      @blazer9547 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@Solaris_Paradox these colonizers invented electricity, automobiles, internet. It's not all doom and gloom

  • @artysanmobile
    @artysanmobile Год назад +4

    Those two world wars sure created a lot of new people.

    • @odonnelly46
      @odonnelly46 Год назад +4

      The 170 million or so people who died thru Wars, Revolutions, Purges, Starvation, and pandemics during the 20th century, barely made a dent in the population growth curve.

    • @Agent-ie3uv
      @Agent-ie3uv Год назад

      Cov 2,0? Cointain in africa, india, pakistan, indoensia......

  • @jk_ilyu
    @jk_ilyu Год назад

    very cool video!! just pure factual information condensed within a 6 minute video.

  • @1Citizensrulethis
    @1Citizensrulethis Год назад +2

    Dear Humanity from 2000 WHY THE FRICK WOULD YOU GO TO 6 BILLION IN ONLY 3 YEARS

  • @Nomad-e6i
    @Nomad-e6i Год назад +4

    As a Korean(birth rate : 0.6baby/woman), I do my best for our planet!:D

    • @montygill2835
      @montygill2835 Год назад

      South Korea has the lowest birth rate in the World.

    • @cocaineminor4420
      @cocaineminor4420 Год назад +2

      It's fine
      It's not like Koreans will disappear
      You still have other Asians lol

    • @user-jt3dw6vv4x
      @user-jt3dw6vv4x Год назад +1

      @@cocaineminor4420 Koreans and other Asians are not the same. Asian isn't even a race.

    • @Clause-lf6su
      @Clause-lf6su 5 месяцев назад

      If you move to places like New Zealand, Australia, and southern Chile, you’d have a lot more room to make babies.