The most recent addition to my hockey stick collection - World Population Growth



 Roser, Max, Hannah Ritchie, and Esteban Ortiz-Ospina. ‘World Population Growth’. Our World in Data, 9 May 2013. https://ourworldindata.org/world-population-growth.

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