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The Growing World Population
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... ~ This accelerated population growth resulted from rapidly lowered death rates (particularly infant and child mortality rates) , combined with sustained high birth rates.
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... Falling fertility rates and the demographic transition are generally associated with improved standards of living' such as increased per capita incomes, increased life expectancy, lowered infant mortality, increased adult literacy: and higher rates of female education and employment. Even with improved economic conditions, nations, regions, and societies will experience different demographic patterns due to varying repopulation Reference Bureau, Tie U.17V.
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  • birth rates
  • human population
  • fertility rates
  • death rates
  • mortality rates

  • demographic transition
  • life expectancy
  • growth resulted
  • strongly correlated
  • low death

  • key determinants
  • enormous implications
  • dramatically reduced
  • increased life
  • economic conditions

  • lowered death
  • falling fertility
  • inadequate availability
  • medical technology
  • natural environment

  • low status
  • downward shifts
  • population reference
  • actual outcome
  • educational levels

  • capita incomes
  • infant mortality
  • human condition
  • particularly infant
  • achieved family


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