mvscal wrote:It was the bloodiest century in history. That fact isn't even arguable.
Numbers-wise, it certainly is inarguable.
As a percentage of humanity, it slowed the steady downward trend since ancient times, but it certainly wasn't.
Still a much smaller percentage of human population than in centuries past. Although the massive population boom made it much easier to ring up big numbers, but those same big numbers kept the overall percentage down.
I'm trying to find the thingy I saw that had reasonable numbers -- dude explains methodology and all that good stuff. But every other reasonable effort I've seen done all comes to the same conclusion.
