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Eco-Economy Indicator – POPULATION GROWTH
Copyright Earth Policy Institute 2004
December 21, 2004

Eco-Economy Indicators are the twelve trends that the Earth Policy
Institute tracks to measure progress in building an eco-economy. World
population growth is the focus of this fourth updated Eco-Economy
Indicator. As the global population grows and consumption increases, the
human ecological footprint expands. When assessing the adequacy of basic
resources such as land and water, population size is the universal
denominator, always shrinking per capita availability as it expands.

WORLD POPULATION GREW BY 76 MILLION PEOPLE IN 2004:
3 Million Added in the Industrial World and 73 Million in the Developing
World
Janet Larsen

During 2004, 133 million people were born and 57 million died, expanding
world population by 76 million. This excess of births over deaths was
concentrated in the developing countries, which added 73 million people
compared with only 3 million in the industrial countries. World
population, growing by 1.2 percent annually, is projected to reach 6.4
billion in 2005…

For entire text see http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Pop/2004.htm
For data see http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Pop/Pop_data.htm

For an index of Earth Policy Institute resources related to Population and
Health see http://www.earth-policy.org/Indicators/Pop/index.htm

And for more analysis regarding the growing world population, see Chapters
5, 6, and 10 of Lester Brown’s book, PLAN B: Rescuing a Planet Under
Stress and a Civilization in Trouble, at
http://www.earth-policy.org/Books/PlanB_contents.htm