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From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Human Population Growth/Decline
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.112327.3031@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 29 Mar 91 16:23:27 GMT
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In article <3146@beguine.UUCP>, ajpierce@med.unc.edu (Andrew Pierce) writes:
> In article <21418@crg5.UUCP> szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo) writes:
>>forces will lose out to women's choice, as they have in all developed
>>countries, including the Catholic countries of Italy and Spain which
>>already have birthrates below replacement levels.
> 
> What about the countries which are prodominantly islam?  In terms of world
> religions, Christianity comes in a solid second to Islam so this is not a
> trivial consideration.  I don't know of any islamic countries off hand
> that I would really call "developed" with the possible exception of Turkey
> so the conclusion drawn above may be premature.  Does anyone know what the
> standard policy concerning birth control under islamic religious law is?
>      -Andy
> ajpierce@med.unc.edu  or  APIERCE@UNC.BITNET

According to the World Population Data Sheet, the world pop. is doubling itself
in forty years.  That's an overall estimate, some regions are more, some are
less.