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The growth of ancient and medieval empires led to ever greater capital cities and seats of provincial administration, with Pataliputra (in India), Changan (in China), ancient Rome, its eastern successor Constantinople (later Istanbul), and successive Chinese, Islamic, and Indian capitals approaching or exceeding the half-million population level. It is estimated that ancient Rome had a population of around 1 million people by the end of the last century BCE, which is widely considered the only city to reach that number until the Industrial Revolution. Alexandria's population was also close to Rome's population at around the same time (in a census dated from 32 CE, Alexandria had 180,000 adult male citizens). Similar large administrative, commercial, industrial and ceremonial centres emerged in other areas. Most notably Baghdad, which second to some estimates became the first city to exceed a population of one million instead of Rome.
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In 1798 the Reverend Thomas Malthus stated in An Essay on the Principle of Population:
"The germs of existence contained in this spot of earth, with ample food, and ample room to expand in, would fill millions of worlds in the course of a few thousand years."
One impact of Malthus's book was that it fuelled the debate about the size of the population in Britain and led to (or at least greatly accelerated) the passing of the Census Act 1800. This Act enabled the holding of a national census in England, Wales and Scotland, starting in 1801 and continuing every ten years to the present.
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Z.P.G. (1972): directed by Michael Campus and starring Oliver Reed and Geraldine Chaplin. Plot: In the not too distant future, on a very polluted and overpopulated Earth, the world government makes it illegal to have children for a generation, with death the penalty for breaking the law.
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According to projections by the Population Division of the United Nations revised in 2004, the population of the world will stabilize at 9.1 billion by 2050 due to demographic transition. David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, predicts that population outcomes for the 22nd century range from 2 billion people (characterised as thriving in harmony with the environment), to 12 billion people (characterised as miserable and suffering a difficult life with limited resources and widespread famine).
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Zero population growth requires a fertility rate of about 2.1, where two adults leave behind two adult children, on the supposition that some 5% of the children die before reaching adulthood, thus requiring 0.10 extra birth over the 2 children to replace their parents).
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A Modest Proposal: For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland from Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a satirical pamphlet written by Jonathan Swift in 1729. The work has now become one of the epitomes of satire, and the modern phrase "A modest proposal" derives from the work. In the essay Swift suggests one solution for both the problem of overpopulation and the growing numbers of undernourished people in Ireland can be solved by the breeding of infants as food.
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Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable. (Joseph Wood Krutch)
If government knew how, I should like to see it check, not multiply, the population. When it reaches its true law of action, every man that is born will be hailed as essential. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Survival is the perpetual struggle for room and food. (Thomas Malthus)
We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves. (Arnold Joseph Toynbee)
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Most Populous City: the largest conurbation in Asia, and the most populous urban agglomeration in the world, is Tokyo, Japan, with an estimated population of 26.4 million in March, 2000, according to the United Nations.
Most Populous Country: China is the world's most populated country, with an estimated population of 1,251,238,000 in 1999. There are now more people in China today than there were in the whole world 150 years ago.
Highest birth rate: according to the most recent available data, the countries with the highest birth rate are Somalia and Sierra Leone, both of which recorded 50 live births per 1,000 people in 2002. The world average for the same year was 21.
Highest natural population increase: the country with the highest natural population increase (births minus deaths) is Somalia with an estimated increase of 32 per 1,000 people in 2002. The world average for the same year was 12 per 1,000 people.
Most Densely Populated Country: the world's most densely populated country is Monaco, with a population density of 16,307 per km² (42,400 per mile²) in 2001. The total population of Monaco in 2001 was 31,800 with a total area measuring only 1.8 km²(0.7 miles²).
Most Densely Populated Island: the world's most densely populated island is Ap Lei Chau, off the southwest side of Hong Kong Island. Ap Lei Chau has a population of 80,000 who are living in an area measuring 1.3 km² (0.5 miles²). The actual population density therefore is 60,000 per 1 km² (160,000 per 1 mile²).
Most Densely Populated Territory: the most densely populated territory is the British Crown Colony of Gibraltar, which has an estimated population of 27,200 (1999) in an area of 5.8 sq. km. (2.2 sq. miles), giving a density of 4,689.7/sq. km. (12,146/sq. mile).
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