FIGURE 17.1 The Growth of Population in England, 1550–1850 England is a good example of both the uneven increase of European population before 1700 and the third great surge of growth that began in the eighteenth century.
(Source: Data from E. A. Wrigley et al., English Population History from Family Reconstitution, 1580–1837 [Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997], p. 614.)