Lam 2011, How the World Survived the Population Bomb 

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

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World population projection in 2011

7 billion people

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1960

When the world population was 3 billion

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39

Between 1960-1999, the doubling time was _____ years

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Demographic transition

Why the demography of the 1960s was so unusual?

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Sub-Saharan Africa

In 1960s, ________ had a record for food production

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Norman Borlaug

Led the Green Revolution

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Future challenges

Global warming, rapid increase in food prices, extreme poverty

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Important authors in demography

Malthus, William Godwin, William Stanley Jevons

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Growth

In 1960, there was an unprecedented rate of population _______

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The world population growth rate will approach ____ by 2100

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Never

The world population growth will ____ double again in 40 years

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China

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

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