than half of the entire world's

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population with more than 105 million
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people each and over the three centuries
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of history since both have added more
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than one billion additional people so
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for about the past 3000 years this small
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circle that contains the majority of
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humanity has remained more or less
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constant in the same general location
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despite both adding more than a billion
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people to their populations however both
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india and china have been growing at
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more or less the exact same rate as the
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rest of the world over the past 300
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years that trend ultimately means that
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both india and china have so many more
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people than any other country today
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because they had so many more people
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than any other country did 300 years ago
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as well in short they simply had a much