What was the world population in 1940?
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What was the world population in 1940?
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The rate of increase in the world's population saw a gradual rise after the seventeenth century. By1850 the population had more than doubled to around 1200 million.
In the twentieth century the population growth accelerated rapidly the theory of 'population explosion' emerged. The population of the industrialized nations of Europe and North America increased before the First World War. It slowed down gradually. The rate of population increase accelerated after the Second World War in the Third World countries and the less developed countries such as in Asia, Africa and Latin America
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