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Most of the present members of the United Nations are former colonies that gained political independence through direct or indirect involvement of the United Nations. In 1945, more than 750 million people lived in non-self-governing territories of various kinds: by 1990, after Namibia gained its independence in a world that had undergone rapid growth of its population, fewer than two million lived in the remaining 18 dependent territories.
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Baehr, P.R., Gordenker, L. (1994). From Colonialism to Independence. In: The United Nations in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23263-5_6
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