SNAPSHOTContinental Population in the Second-Wave Era and Beyond
(Note: Population figures for such early times are merely estimates and are often controversial among scholars. Percentages do not always total 100 percent due to rounding.2)
| Eurasia | Africa | North America | Central/South America | Australia/Oceania | Total World |
| Area (in square miles and as percentage of world total) |
| 21,049,000 (41%) | 11,608,000 (22%) | 9,365,000 (18%) | 6,880,000 (13%) | 2,968,000 (6%) | 51,870,000 |
| Population (in millions and as percentage of world total) |
| 400 B.C.E. | 127 (83%) | 17 (11%) | 1 (0.7%) | 7 (5%) | 1 (0.7%) | 153 |
| 10 C.E. | 213 (85%) | 26 (10%) | 2 (0.8%) | 10 (4%) | 1 (0.4%) | 252 |
| 200 C.E. | 215 (84%) | 30 (12%) | 2 (0.8%) | 9 (4%) | 1 (0.4%) | 257 |
| 600 C.E. | 167 (80%) | 24 (12%) | 2 (1%) | 14 (7%) | 1 (0.5%) | 208 |
| 1000 C.E. | 195 (77%) | 39 (15%) | 2 (0.8%) | 16 (6%) | 1 (0.4%) | 253 |
| 1500 | 329 (69%) | 113 (24%) | 4.5 (0.9%) | 53 (11%) | 3 (0.6%) | 477 |
| 1750 | 646 (83%) | 104 (13%) | 3 (0.4%) | 15 (1.9%) | 3 (0.4%) | 771 |
| 2013 | 5,041 (70.4%) | 1,110 (15.5%) | 355 (5%) | 617 (8.6%) | 38 (0.5%) | 7,162 |