The World’s Biggest Cities Over Time Since 4000 B.C.

This post originally appeared in Business Insider.

The folks at Goldman Sachs just published a massive special report with their analysts’$2 100 favorite charts. Here’s an interesting chart going way back to 4000 BC showing the population of the biggest cities in the western and eastern worlds.

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