The two pie charts compare the variations in the world’s population by different areas from 1900 to 2000.
In general, the proportion of the world’s population in Asia was the largest in both years. By contrast, the percentage of the global populace declined, whereas Latin America and Africa experienced significant decreases in two years: 1900 and 2000.
Regarding Asia, the percentage of population was the largest, accounting for 60 percent in 1900 before moderately declining to 54 percent in 2000. Conversely, Europe held the second largest share of the world’s population, at 25 percent before dropping to 14 percent between 1900 and 2000.
In 1900, the figures for Latin America and Africa stood at 3 percent and 4 percent, respectively before more than doubling 8 percent and 10 percent by 2000. The percentages of the global population in North America and other regions remained unchanged at 5 percent and 3 percent, respectively, over the 100-year period while the proportion of the world’s population in Middle East and North Africa accounted for 6 percent of the global population in 2000.