when did the world population start to increase
World population World population has experienced continuous growth since the end of the Great Famine of 1315–17 and the Black Death in 1350, when it was near 370 million.[3] The highest population growth rates – global population increases above 1.8% per year – occurred between 1955 and 1975, peaking to 2.06% between 1965 and 1970.[2] The growth rate has declined to 1.18% between 2010 and 2015 and is projected to decline to 0.13% by the year 2100.[2] Total annual births were highest in the late 1980s at about 139 million,[4] and are now expected to remain essentially constant at their 2011 level of 135 million,[5] while deaths number 56 million per year and are expected to increase to 80 million per year by 2040.[6] The median age of the world's population was estimated to be 30.1 years in 2016, with the male median age estimated at 29.4 years and female at 30.9 years.[7]