Published February 14, 2026 | Version v2
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Diagram: Pleistocene – Holocene – Anthropocene. Human global population trajectory and assorted greenhouse gas emissions (22.000 BCE – 2025 CE)

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • 2. ROR icon LEIZA - Leibniz-Zentrum für Archäologie

Description

Diagram, data compilation and content: D. Gronenborn, N. Hausmann, A. Mees, T. Schmidts, February 2026

Time series end with the latest officially announced yearly values for global temperature (2025: + 1.47 C°), carbon dioxide (2025: 423 ppm) and methane (2025: 1940 ppb) emissions, and global population (2025: 8.27 bn).

Pls. cite as: Gronenborn, D., Hausmann, N., Mees, A., Schmidts, T. (2026), Diagram: Pleistocene – Holocene – Anthropocene. Human global population trajectory and assorted greenhouse gas emissions (22.000 BCE – 2025 CE). DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18642825.

 For background information (data sources) pls refer to PDF: Info_sheet (see below).

 

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