Table 1.POPULATION GROWTH BY MAJOR REGION: 1970-2075
Absolute numbers in billions)
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| | |U.S. Proposed Goal for World
|Actual| U.N. Medium Variant | Population Plan of Action
| | |
| | Projections for: | Projections for:
| 1970 | --- 2000 --- --- 2075 ---| --- 2000 --- --- 2075 ---
| | No. Multiple No. Multiple | No. Multiple No. Multiple
| | of 1970 of 1970 | of 1970 of 1970
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WORLD TOTAL | 3.6 | 6.4 x 1.8 12.0 x 3.3 | 5.9 x 1.6 8.4 x 2.3
| | |
More | | |
Developed | 1.1 | 1.4 x 1.3 1.6 x 1.45 | 1.4 x 1.2 1.6 x 1.4
Regions | | |
| | |
Less | | |
Developed | 2.5 | 5.0 x 2.0 10.5 x 4.1 | 4.5 x 1.8 6.7 x 2.65
Regions | | |
| | |
Africa | 0.4 | 0.8 x 2.4 2.3 x 6.65 | 0.6 x 1.8 0.9 x 2.7
| | |
East Asia | 0.8 | 1.2* x 1.5 1.6* x 2.0 | 1.4* x 1.6 1.9* x 2.3
| | |
South & | | |
South East | 1.1 | 2.4 x 2.1 5.3 x 4.7 | 2.1 x 1.9 3.2 x 2.85
Asia | | |
| | |
Latin | | |
America | 0.2 | 0.6 x 2.3 1.2 x 5.0 | 0.5 x 2.0 0.7 x 3.0
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More Developed Regions: Europe, North America, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Temperate South America.
Less Developed Regions: All other regions
* The seeming inconsistency in growth trends between the UN medium and the US-proposed projection variants
for East Asia is due to a lack of reliable information on China's total population, its age structure, and
the achievements of the country's birth control program.