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A Shrinking Planet Nicholas Eberstadt, "The Population Implosion," in Foreign Policy (March/April 2001), Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1779 Massachusetts Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
For decades, there have been, warnings of a "population explosion" that would swamp the world with people. But American Enterprise Institute fellow Eberstadt warns it's more likely future problems will come from shrinkage of the world's population.
From 1950 to 2000, global fertility levels fell by 40 percent. According to demographers at the United Nations and the Census Bureau, 44 percent of the world now has "subreplacement fertility," with families producing less than two children per couple. The lengthy list of countries where ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A Shrinking Planet.(population forecasts)(Brief Article)