Uploaded November 2021 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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This video shows the top 25 historical empires by population from the year 1AD through to the present and predicts the future of our world's population growth.
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Sources - A compilation of all the following sources were used in order to make the best possible predictions used in this video.

https://www.rug.nl/ggdc/historicaldevelopment/maddison/?lang=en
imf.org/en/Publications/WEO/weo-database/2020/October
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_empires
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_in_the_nineteenth_century
youtube.com/watch?v=-6Wu0Q7x5D0

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Timestamps

0:00 - 1AD - 500AD
3:41 - 500AD-1000AD
7:24 - 1000AD-1500AD
11:06 - 1500AD-1900AD
14:04 - 1900AD-2000AD
14:48 - 2000AD-2020AD
14:57 - 2020AD - 2021AD
15:20 - 2100AD - 2300AD
16:20 - 2300AD - 3000AD
19:50 - 3000AD-5000AD