Population Growth In The 21st Century
31 May 2001 - 9:00am
A report by the Population Reference Bureau concludes that growth in industrialized nations has essentially stopped, and has shifted to the less developed countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
"Currently, of the 83 million people added to global population each year by the difference between births and deaths, only 1 million are in the industrialized countries." That's one of the findings of the new report that illustrates the shift of the world's population to developing countries. Among developed countries, The United States is the only nation with a fertility rate at or above the "replacement level" of 2.1 children per woman.
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21st Century Will Transform World Population
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Associated Press, October 7, 2005
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