Despite extensive coverage in the media of violent occurrences worldwide, a recent study conducted at Tel Aviv University has actually demonstrated with mathematical proof that as humanity progresses – the world is becoming less violent.

Dr. Jacob Bock Axelsen of the biomathematics unit at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Zoology has discovered that as the human population grows – violence declines. Axelsen uses a mathematical model to describe the correlation between population growth and a decline in violence levels.

“This result came from my project on global language diversity,” Axelsen tells NoCamels. “[The largest] civilizations [in the world] have passed, or will pass, the demographic transition and reach a constant population size sooner or later,” he says.