Recent claims by analysts that the global population explosion is over are
premature, says the UN Population Fund. Although the annual rate of growth has
declined from 2 per cent in 1960 to 1.4 per cent now, The State of World
Population 1998, out this week, estimates that the world population is
likely to rise from 6 billion to 9.4 billion by 2050.
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