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Michael S. Teitelbaum
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Program Officer, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, New York City. Author of The British Fertility Decline: Demographic Transition in the Crucible of the Industrial Revolution.

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Line graph showing world population growth from 1700 to 2000 with a steep rise after 1950, followed by three projection scenarios for 2000 to 2100: high, medium, and low, reaching between 7 and 14 billion.
Population, in human biology, the whole number of inhabitants occupying an area (such as a country or the world) and continually being modified by increases (births and immigrations) and losses (deaths and emigrations). As with any biological population, the size of a human population is limited by…
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