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The Global Population

Population growth is not something that gets nearly the face time in the media as it should. There are certain countries on this planet that are growing faster than there is land to put them. Anyone who studied the world population growth over the past two centuries is very aware of the severity of the situation. The global population reached one billion in 1804. 123 years later in 1927, it passed two billion. Sixty years later, in 1987, the world population was five billion, and 12 years later, it went well past 6 billion. Small wonder that many are concerned about what this bodes for our future. Due to the momentum represented by steeply pyramidal age distributions, population growth surely will continue for one to several generations. http://www.globalchange.umich.edu/globalchange2/current/lectures/human_pop/human_pop.html
The global population growth rate has declined significantly from its 1970s number. Current estimates anticipate a continued......

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