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What major event in world history led to a massive global population explosion

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Post-Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution brought innovations to food and medicine, and kickstarted an era that would be usher in the birth of many new technologies. This screenshot is from close to 1900, when these innovations started to make rapid global population growth a reality.

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Industrialization and other developments led to death rates falling, while birth rates remained high. Until birth rates also fell about a century later, the population grew rapidly and population size exploded. The same demographic transition occurred a little later in other industrialized countries

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