World Population

World population, which reached 5.4 billion in mid-1991, is growing faster than ever before: three people every second, more than 250,000 every day. At the beginning of the decade (1991) the annual addition was 93 million; by the end (1998) it will approach 100 million. At this rate the world will have almost a billion more people (roughly the population of China) by the year 2001. Population and development are closely aligned. In Population: A Megalopolis is Born, Melvyn Weslake sees these …

…to UNFPA research, maintaining current rates of population growth will require the extension of family planning services to an additional 186 million couples (services are now provided to only 381 million couples). The best reference for sources of International Population Assistance is produced by the United Nation Population Fund (UNPF) Guide to Sources of International Population Assistance. An accompanying volume entitled Inventory of Population Projects in Developing Countries Around the World provides an overview of population programming.