UN warns of population explosion

[winterbadger]

The population of developing countries will soar unless donors give more funds to reproductive health programmes, a UN Population Fund report says.
The world's 50 poorest countries will triple in size by 2050, surging to 1.7 billion people, it predicts.

from the BBC

In light of a recent discussion of theories of population *shrinkage* (which so affected the originator that he apparently deleted his journal (!), I thought this was interesting.

Comments

[shy-kat.livejournal.com]

All the scientific stuff if seen does seem to predict massive population growth in developing nations.

The "population shrinkage" arguers always seem to be full of ****.