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100 1 _aEBERSTADT Nicholas
245 1 4 _aThe human population unbound /
_cNicholas Eberstadt.
260 _c2014
520 _aThe population of the world quadrupled between 1900 and 2000, a rise primarily due to improved health and nutrition. Over the same period birth rates have declined dramatically so that now some 80 countries, which between them contain about half the human population, already have birth rates below replacement rates. The article considers whether these trends will continue and what implications there might be if they do.
650 _aDEMOGRAPHICS
650 _aPOPULATION GROWTH
773 _aCurrent History : Vol 113 No 759, January 2014, pp. 43-46 (20)
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