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From: karl@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Human Population Growth/Decline
Message-ID: <1991Apr4.090846@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Date: 4 Apr 91 14:08:46 GMT
References: <21376@crg5.UUCP> <1991Mar20.125112.2920@desire.wright.edu> <21418@crg5.UUCP> <3146@beguine.UUCP> <1991Mar29.112327.3031@desire.wright.edu> <21472@crg5.UUCP>
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In article <21472@crg5.UUCP>, szabo@crg5.UUCP (Nick Szabo) writes:
|> In article <1991Mar29.112327.3031@desire.wright.edu> 
|> sbishop@desire.wright.edu writes:
|> 
|> >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.  
|> 
|> This is incredibly simplistic, since the _rate_ of population 
|> growth has been cut nearly in half in just the last 20 years, and 
|> continues to fall at a rate that is itself accelerating.  The people 
|> who have the most $$$ to lose/gain (and $$$ to spend studying) world 
|> population growth, the World Bank, show world population "leveling 
|> off" at less than 10 billion people.

So whom should we believe, the World Population Data Sheet or the World
Bank?  Are they related?  Who publishes the WPDS?  Does *anybody* have
credible data on current world population growth rates?  Inquiring minds 
want to know 8^).
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