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Population Growth

From International Encyclopedia of Public Health
In the last half-century, population growth has proceeded at an unprecedented rate, with the world’s population currently totaling six billion people. The public health impact of this growth has been tremendous, and the implications for the future are equally daunting. Trends in fertility and mortality rates offer insight into the health and development challenges posed by population growth, and the possible demographic scenarios of the future. Still, future scenarios will be largely determined by a number of controllable factors, including contraceptive prevalence, HIV/AIDS and other diseases, gender equity, migration patterns, and government policies. Considering population’s heavy impact on service and resource availability, population growth will remain a critical determinant of global public health. Keywords Abortion Conflict Contraceptives Demography Fertility Gender HIV/AIDS Maternal health Migration In the last half-century, population growth has proceeded at a rate…
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World population growth, 1000-2050....
1. A Basic Observation 2. Early Modern Population Growth and Energy Use 3. 1700-1950: The First Modern Population Growth Spurt 4. 1950-2050: The Second Modern Population Growth Spurt 5. Modern Population Growth and Energy Glossary crude birth rate The number of births per 1000 population. crude…
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Full text Article Population Growth

From International Encyclopedia of Human Geography
The growth of Australia’s population,...
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Glossary Demographic balancing (or accounting) equation An equation which describes how population stocks at two points in time change due to gains and losses from the population (commonly births, deaths, and migration). Demographic transition The long–run…
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Population Growth
In 2015, the Latin American population reached 617 million. Within the region, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, and Argentina are the most populous countries. Social scientists and politicians have long been concerned with rapid population expansion in the Latin American region. Moreover, the uneven nature…
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Full text Article Population Growth and Demographic Issues

From Global Social Issues: An Encyclopedia
Traffic, strain on basic services, and sheer...
Human populations are in constant flux, usually growing, at specific times and places shrinking, but very rarely static. And even stable populations, while remaining roughly the same size overall, experience internal compositional change in their age, gender, class, immigrant, and ethnic cohorts. …
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Abstract Beginning with the original Malthusian concern about human population growth, this article reviews the four principal schools of thought about population growth and whether or how to control it; sketches early population control programs in India and China; acknowledges subsequent global…
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Many people disagree with the apocalyptic environmentalists such as Paul Ehrlich [see Document 107 ] and the radical environmentalists such as Arne Naess [see Document 129 ], who argue that we must take immediate action to constrain the human impact on the environment. One of the most strident…
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Full text Article Countries with highest and lowest population growth

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Rank Country Population growth rate (% 2010–15) Population (2016 est) Highest 1 Qatar 6.7 2,415,000 2 Oman 6.5 4,312,000 3 Lebanon 6 5,075,000 4 Kuwait 5.4 3,680,000 5 Jordan 4.9 7,820,000 6 Equatorial Guinea 4.2 821,000 7 Niger 3.8 20,033,000 8 Angola 3.5 23,521,000 9 Uganda 3.4 41,468,000 10…
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Full text Article population growth

From Cambridge Dictionary of Human Biology and Evolution
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POPULATION GROWTH KEEPS US POOR: DEMOGRAPHICS AND ECONOMICS
IN CONTEXT FOCUS Growth and development KEY THINKER Thomas Malthus (1766–1834) BEFORE 17th century Mercantilist thought argues that a large populace benefits the economy. 1785 French philosopher Marquis de Condorcet argues for social reform to raise living standards. 1793 English philosopher William…
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Full text Article zero population growth

From The Macquarie Dictionary
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