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In subsequent history the twentieth century may be called either the century of world wars or the century of the population plague. In 1900 the world’s people numbered approximately 1.65 billion. Now, 70 years later, the number is almost twice as large and, by the end of the century, it may be almost four times as large.
This is a modified and expanded version of a paper first published in California Medicine,Vol. 113 (Nov. 1970), pp. 33-39.
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Davis, K. (1973). The Climax of World Population Growth. In: Williams, R.H. (eds) To Live and To Die: When, Why, and How. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95238-8_6
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