The human species may be more than 100,000 years old but the bulk of its numerical growth has come in just the last few decades: 2.6 billion of today's 5.6 billion people have been born since 1960.
Can we infer the following?
Population growth has expanded rapidly in the near past

Select from the following.
[1]. Yes.
[2]. It's impossible to say.
[3]. No.
The answer is:
[1].