Lam 2011, How the World Survived the Population Bomb

CDRs

______ are leveling off/rising in countries advanced in the demographic transition leading to an aging population.

World population projection in 2011

7 billion people

1960

When the world population was 3 billion

39

Between 1960-1999, the doubling time was _____ years

Demographic transition

Why the demography of the 1960s was so unusual?

Sub-Saharan Africa

In 1960s, ________ had a record for food production

Norman Borlaug

Led the Green Revolution

Future challenges

Global warming, rapid increase in food prices, extreme poverty

Important authors in demography

Malthus, William Godwin, William Stanley Jevons

Growth

In 1960, there was an unprecedented rate of population _______

0

The world population growth rate will approach ____ by 2100

Never

The world population growth will ____ double again in 40 years

China

There was a decline of population in poverty from 1981-2005 in _____