November 07, 2009
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The Candidates’ Positions
Hillary Clinton
U.S. Senator from New York.
Barack Obama

U.S. Senator from Illinois.
John Edwards
Former U.S. Senator from North Carolina.
Mike Gravel
Former U.S. Senator (AK)
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Fast Facts
  1. In India, more than 700 million people, or roughly two-thirds of the population, do not have adequate sanitation. Largely for lack of clean water, 2.1 million children under the age of 5 die each year, according to the United Nations.
  2. Forty-four percent of the world's people live in nations where the population has stopped growing. If present trends continue, Europe's population will fall by 100 million and Japan's by 21 million iby 2050.
  3. In 2005, more than half of the world's people lived below the internationally defined poverty line of less than $2 a day, and 99% of the world's population growth occured in the developing world. (World Population Data Sheet, The Population Reference Bureau.)
  4. Exurbs were the fastest-growing in population from July 1, 2004, to July 1, 2005.

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Population Growth   

Two basic factors control population growth in a given period: a society's birthrate and its life expectancy. Life expectancy relates to a third factor, mortality, the percentage of the population that dies in a given period. In the late 1900s the world's birthrate actually decreased. However, because mortality also decreased and life expectancy greatly increased, the world population topped 6 billion in 2000 and continues to grow.

Population Growth Overview

The last four centuries have brought a dramatic increase in the world's population. Two basic factors control population growth in a given period: a society's birthrate and its life expectancy. Birthrate, also known as fertility, is the number of children born per thousand people in a year. Life expectancy is…>> (read more)

 

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Population Growth in the News

SOMETIMES, a crisis lasts so long, or proves so impervious to remedy, that it becomes normal. We are now 44 years removed from Daniel Patrick Moynihan's famous Labor Department…>> (read more)

SOMETHING DRAMATIC HAS HAPPENED TO THE world's birthrates. Defying predictions of demographic decline, northern Europeans have started having more babies. Britain and France are now projecting steady population growth…>> (read more)

Byline: David Perlman

A $15 million grant has been awarded to UC Berkeley's School of Public Health to study the impact of the world's population growth on…>> (read more)


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