Census (rather than effective) population size is presented on a logarithm scale over the past 10,000 years, from about 5 million at 8000 BCE to about 7 billion today from data in (1, 3, 30, 31). The depicted linear increase (on the log scale) through most of the presented epoch denotes exponential growth of relatively constant percentage increase in population size per year. An acceleration of that increase starting in the Common Era is evident.
