If you look at the way is shaped you’ll see. When ever somebody dies a baby is born. But than 1 more baby is born to keep the system unbalance so it grows. Learning that it started at 5 million made me to change everything. Such As the data points, the x/y axis and I had to use more room on the sheet. For my x/y axis I was counting by 10,000 so I had 4 places to put data points in 100 years. For me that was helpful. I was having some trouble figuring out the way my graph will take form but I realized the more poeple there are the more people are going to die. That helped me the most.
Interesting points about birth and death rates, Zach. I’m glad that made sense to you. Do you remember hearing that it took until 1800 to reach our first billion people? How would that be reflected in the shape of the graph?