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Article: Report Finds World Population to Add 3 Billion by 2025
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- U.S. Newswire
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- July 26, 1994
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WASHINGTON, July 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- World population may total
nearly 9 billion in 2025 -- 3 billion more than today's total and
one-half billion more than previous World Bank and United Nations
projections for 2025, reports a study released today by the
Population Reference Bureau Inc.
The world total may reach 12.6 billion by 2100, according to the
new projections, prepared by Dr. Wolfgang Lutz and his colleagues at
Austria's respected International Institute for Applied Systems
Analysis (IIASA).
The report, "The Future of World Population," deals with many of
the core issues to be addressed at the International Conference on