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Population Explosion!
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Nuclear explosions weren't the only threat we faced in the Space Age. The Baby Boom may have ended in 1964 but we worried about the population explosion! Watch the numbers click closer to 200 million Americans at the Equitable Demograph.


A huge tabulator flashes the exact U.S. population every 12 seconds; displays chart population trends around the world.

View the Industrial Area Map

Locate It: B31

The Demograph counter, a 44-foot long scoreboard with electric numerals six feet high, keeps an up-to-the-minute tally of the number of people in the nation. Multi-colored lights on a large map indicate births and deaths by state.

  • POPULATION EXPLOSION. Other displays keep up with age and sex distribution, mobility patterns and predictions of growth in each of the 50 states. World population totals are shown on a separate map and counter connected to multilingual telephones.

The description of this exhibit from the 1965 Official Guide Book