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World Population
Title: World Population
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1663 | Pages: 7.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
World Population
World population, which reached 5.4 billion in mid-1991, is growing faster than
ever before: three people every second, more than 250,000 every day. At the beginning of
the decade (1991) the annual addition was 93 million; by the end (1998) it will approach
100 million. At this rate the world will have almost a billion more people (roughly the
population of China) by the year 2001.
Population and development are closely aligned. In Population: A Megalopolis is
Born, Melvyn Weslake sees these …showed first 75 words of 1663 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1663 total…to UNFPA research, maintaining current rates of
population growth will require the extension of family planning services to
an additional 186 million couples (services are now provided to only 381
million couples). The best reference for sources of International
Population Assistance is produced by the United Nation Population Fund
(UNPF) Guide to Sources of International Population Assistance. An
accompanying volume entitled Inventory of Population Projects in
Developing Countries Around the World provides an overview of
population programming.
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