Atlas of World Population History

by Colin McEvedy, Richard M. Jones

Presents a systematic survey of population growth and fluctuation in all parts of the world from prehistoric times to the twenty-first century

Genres: History

368 pages, Paperback

Published June 29, 1978

About the author

Colin Peter McEvedy was a British polymath scholar, psychiatrist, historian, demographer and non-fiction author.

Reviews

[Jeff Greason · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sadly slightly dated now -- some of the areas are no longer consistent with more recent historical or archaeological evidence. However, I've not found a more recent work which does what this book does -- assemble historical estimates of population on a fine enough grain of detail to be useful for looking at individual areas. More recent books look at broad areas of the world; McEvedy takes it down to individual country-sized units.