Contributions

  • Nancy Birdsall (Editor) - Contributor
  • Allen C. Kelley (Editor) - Contributor
  • Steven Sinding (Editor) - Contributor

Publication

2001-10-04 - Oxford University Press, USA

Language

English

Word Count

114,000 words, Guess

Page Count

456 pages

Identifiers

First Sentence

No social phenomenon has attracted more attention in the last half-century than the 'population explosion'-that surge of population numbers rising almost threefold from 2.5 billion in 1950 to over 6 billion at the turn of the millennium, and continuing at a diminishing pace to level out at as much as 11 billion in the middle of the twenty-second century.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Population Matters: Demographic Change, Economic Growth, and Poverty in the Developing WorldOxford University Press, USA2001-10-04

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