Transcription of Population Growth and Economic Development
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ArticlesPopulation Growthand Economic Development *A discussion of eight major relationshipsthat link demographic patternsand Economic processesBy Samuel H. Preston and Peter DonaldsonSince 1950, Population Growth rates in developing countries have averagedaround 2 per cent per year, enough to double the size of a country s popula-tion in 35 years. The calculation is not merely hypothetical; the populationof the developing world (Africa, Latin America and Asia, except Japan) has infact doubled between 1950, when it numbered billion, and 1984, whenit reached billion.*The authors of this article are Professor Samuel H.
Although population growth rates have been relatively constant during this period (especially if China, with a hilIshaped growth rate pattern, is ex-
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