WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The increase in the food supply contributed to the rapid growth of population in England and Wales, from 5.5 million in 1700 to over 9 million by 1801, although domestic production gave way increasingly to food imports in the 19th century as population more than tripled to over 32 million.

Detailed explanation-2: -Following the Neolithic or agricultural revolution, the population made its first major leap, reaching over the short span of 8, 000 years around 150 million by the year 1000 bce (2.6 persons per square mile). For the next two and a half thousand years there was relatively little change.

Detailed explanation-3: -England had a population of around 5.7 million people in 1750. By 1850, England’s population reached 16.6 million. This is the direct result of the British Agricultural Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The unprecedented increase in agricultural production in Britain due to increases in labor and land productivity between the mid-17th and late 19th centuries. Agricultural output grew faster than the population over the century to 1770, and thereafter productivity remained among the highest in the world.