IFIMES II: Population and pollution and urbanisation
IFIMES II: Population and pollution and urbanisation

Author(s): J Scott Younger
Subject(s): Energy and Environmental Studies, Policy, planning, forecast and speculation, Demography and human biology, Environmental interactions
Published by: Mednarodni inštitut za bližnjevzhodne in balkanske študije IFIMES
Keywords: population; pollution; urbanisation; growth;
Summary/Abstract: This article looks at the population growth with time and how this has impacted on man’s endeavours. The population numbers grew slowly but steadily from many centuries before the 1960s, when it took a sudden acceleration from 3 billion over the next 50 years to today’s level of over 8+ billion. The reason is twofold; people living longer, due to advances in medical science, as well as having more children. It is expected to rise further to approximately 10.5 billion by mid-century and slowly decline thereafter to be about 9 billion by the turn of the century.

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