[rlue]

Wow, wasn't expecting a response! Taken together, the data and the historical context tell a really powerful story.

So the chosen UN projections for this graph don't stagger like the historic data because they assume no famines or other high-death-toll events in the given period then?

On the one hand, I imagine we must have a big disaster coming our way eventually. On the other, if you factored it into your projections, you'd have to guess at the approximate time and magnitude of such an event, which I'm sure is not the business of whoever's making these projections.