Examples of Geometric Growth

The following diagrams are taken from Population versus Liberty

Many people seem to find it hard to grasp - or at least accept - what compound growth means in the field of human population.  I find in public lectures on these topics that it helps to give examples of compound growth in quite different spheres and them switch back to population once the point is imaginatively seized.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The World Population Clock

World Total: Births this year: Deaths this year: Births today: Deaths today:

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