Population figures and compound interest Population figures and compound interest Roy Silson Adapted extract from a letter to the Institute.
Few people have any idea of the effects of compound interest on population numbers.
A doubling in one generation means a thousand times increase in only ten generations and a million million times in 40 generations. Lower rates of increase only delay this increase but do not prevent it. Even the lowest rate would give the million million increase for humans in less than a million years. The reality is that such rates of increase cannot occur without major disasters. You can give a rating to this scheme overall.