Human population growth and the demographic transition
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Human population growth and the demographic transition
The world and most regions and countries are experiencing unprecedentedly rapid demographic change. The most obvious example of this change is the huge expansion of human numbers: four billion have been added since 1950. Projections for the next half century expect a highly divergent world, with stagnation or potential decline in parts of the developed world and continued rapid growth in the le...
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عنوان ژورنال: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0962-8436,1471-2970
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0137