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Population momentum and the demand on land and water resources

1997-07-29

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Future world population growth is fuelled by two components: the demographic momentum, which is built into the age composition of current populations, and changes in reproductive behaviour and mortality of generations yet to come. This paper investigates, by major world regions and countries, what we know about population growth, what can be projected with reasonable certainty, and what is pure speculation. The ex...

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Literature Corpus work: 26bf8921-5416-5221-bac2-72dd20d2bda2
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0067
PMCID: PMC1691987

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