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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Tora Ziyal: [QB] Hey, I know about population stuff, too! Environmental Studies comes in handy sometimes! (Not to mention I came across this article while researching for a paper in that class) Population growth is not that important, believe it or not. It's total fertility rate (how many children a woman has in her reproductive lifetime) that counts. And that number is on the decline worldwide--people around the world are having fewer kids regardless of economic situation. What's causing the population "explosion" is the low death rate resulting from advanced medical technology, but in fact, most developed countries have birth rates at below replacement. The population trend goes like this: high birth/high death-->high birth/low death (which we're going through)-->low birth/low death. It is projected that we may reach the low birth/low death equilibrium in about 50 years. I'll post some fertility rate figures when I get home. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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