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Article: Global Births Increasing Even as Fertility Rates Decline.
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- December 15, 2008
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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 December 2008-US Census Bureau: Global Births Increasing Even as Fertility Rates Decline(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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Although fertility rates continue to fall worldwide, the annual number of births is still rising and projected to peak at 137 million in 2013. World population as of July 1, 2008, was estimated to be 6.7 billion.
These and other demographic trends throughout the world are available from the Census Bureau's online International Data Base.
The worldwide rise in births is related not just to fertility rates but also to the number of women in their peak childbearing ages (20-39). In ...