Abstract
The single outstanding fact about world population during the past two hundred years has been the rapidity of its growth. Since 1750 there has been a rapid and accelerating expansion in population and more recently we have come to speak of a ‘population explosion’. Currently, according to the World Health Organization, 3.7 human beings are born every second: the net increment works out at 222 per minute, 13 260 per hour, 318 240 per day, or nearly 2.25 million per week! At current rate of growth (1.9 per cent annually) the world population is approximately doubling every 30 years; hence, if the present trend continues, and there is little to suggest that it will be interrupted or changed, by A.D. 2000 the present total world population of around 4000 million will have doubled to between 6000 and 7000 million.
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