Global map showing only population density

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7. The Population Connection Dot video of population growth

It is about 6 1/2 minutes long but you can skip the first 2 minutes -- the actual dot stuff begins at 2:00 and ends at 5:42.

To cut viewing time short, to see some interesting transitions, you can start at 4:10 just before the Mongols arrive in China, and watch China's population dwindle for 2 centuries.

Or you can start at 4:30 just before the Black Plague, and watch Europe's numbers dwindle.

Or you can start at 5:00 which is about 1600 A.D. while the population is still quite modest outside of India and China, and watch the last 42 seconds.

1 dot = 1 million population

As for "OLD" version, it is much better than the newer version - the newer version flashes the dots that are added, very distracting and obscures what this is trying to show.

What's interesting is that China and India were always relatively highly populated. I read that in China / East Asia's case, that's because rice farming feeds a lot of people per acre.