How Regions Shaped World Population Growth since 1960

B Ravikumar and Guillaume Vandenbroucke

On the Economy from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: While the global population more than doubled from 1960 to 2020, the growth was unevenly distributed. Two regions accounted for most of that population change.

Keywords: world population; regional population growth; population trends (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026-04-06
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