Population growth
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Advances in medicine and the understanding of human anatomy and disease prevention took place in the 1800s, and were partly responsible for rapidly accelerating population growth in the western world. Europe's population doubled during the 19th century, from roughly 200 million to more than 400 million. The introduction of railroads provided the first major advancement in land transportation for centuries, changing the way people lived and obtained goods, and fueling major urbanization movements in countries across the globe. Numerous cities worldwide surpassed populations of a million or more during this century. London was transformed into the world's largest city and capital of the British Empire. Its population expanded from 1 million in 1800 to 6.7 million a century later. The last remaining undiscovered landmasses of Earth, including vast expanses of interior Africa and Asia, were discovered during this century, and with the exception of the extreme zones of the Arctic and Antarctic, accurate and detailed maps of the globe were available by the 1890s. Liberalism became the preeminent reform movement in Europe.
See also
- Carrying capacity
- Demographic economics
- Demographic momentum
- Demographic transition
- Density dependent inhibition
- Exponential growth
- Family planning
- Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population
- Fertility rate
- Green Revolution
- Natalism and Antinatalism
- Optimum Population
- Overpopulation
- Urban sprawl
- Population pyramid
- Population decline
- Immigration
- Immigration reduction
- Rank mobility index
- World population
- World population estimates
- Logistic function - concept related to logistic model
- Ronald Fisher - who referred to the population growth rate as the Malthusian Parameter
- List of countries by fertility rate
- List of countries by population growth rate
