YouMe World Heritage

💡 More humans alive today than all who lived before 1800 combined.

💡 COVID-19 pandemic year — global population still grew by 80 million.

💡 Y2K — the world entered the new millennium with 6.1 billion people.

💡 Post-WWII baby boom began — population would triple in 75 years.

💡 At the dawn of the 20th century, most people had never seen a car.

💡 World population hit 1 billion for the first time in human history.

💡 The Black Death killed ~75-200 million — population dropped by 25%.

💡 Pre-Black Death peak — the Golden Age of medieval civilizations.

💡 Viking Age ends. Song Dynasty China holds 1/3 of world population.

💡 Year 1 CE — Roman Empire at its height, Han Dynasty rules China.

💡 Classical Greece, Persian Empire, rise of Buddhism.

💡 Ancient Egypt builds the pyramids, Mesopotamia flourishes.

💡 End of the last Ice Age — agriculture begins.