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From: sbishop@desire.wright.edu
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Human Population Growth/Decline
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.102515.3110@desire.wright.edu>
Date: 5 Apr 91 15:25:15 GMT
References: <21376@crg5.UUCP> <1991Mar20.125112.2920@desire.wright.edu> <21418@crg5.UUCP>  <1991Apr4.090846@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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In article <1991Apr4.090846@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov>, karl@quercus.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl Anderson) writes:
> 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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The WPDS is from the class I am currently taking in Population Demographics.
I'll have to dig it out and give more info on it.  Actually there are three
projections on the sheet as to possible world population growth.  I'll get
back to the net with all the info....

sue