Projected urban sprawl and environmental impacts of urbanization are greatest under a fossil-fuelled development shared socioeconomic pathway, according to global, high resolution urban cellular automata modelling. Explore global and national data on population growth, demography, and how they are changing. The main results are presented in a series of Excel files displaying key demographic indicators for each UN development group, World Bank income group, geographic region, Sustainable Development. Systematic analyses of global health trends can provide an accurate narrative of progress and challenges. We analysed the impact of changing age-speci… Abstract This paper deals with the analysis of long-term changes in population densities at the regional and macro-regional scale and in the density of metapopulations. Nearly all population growth up to 1830 was by internal increase; about 98.5% of the population was native-born. By 1850, this had shifted to about 90% native-born. Population change is the rate of change in population between decennial census years. While every census region grew considerably during the twentieth century, the South and West experienced the largest increases in population. Earth’s human population and their use of resources are growing rapidly, to the extent that some worry about the ability of Earth’s environment to sustain its human population. Students watch the video “World Population” and participate in guided exploration of an online timeline to explore how improvements in medicine, food and agriculture, and public health and sanitation during the Industrial Revolution contributed to population growth. What has been the long-term trend in global population? How has urbanization changed in the past 200 years? What are some health effects of using fossil fuels? Now that you know what to look for, it’s time to read! Remember to return to these questions once you’ve finished reading.