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Life expectancy is increasing except in Africa, where AIDS and other infectious diseases have taken a toll. Lower birth rates will start to level the global population by mid-century |
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| Graphic by Joe Lertola. Reported by Laura Bradford and Andrea Dorfman. Posted on August 18, 2002. Source: U.N. Population Division ("Northern America" consists primarily of the U.S. and Canada. Central American countries are included in "Latin America, Caribbean"); State of the World 2002, Worldwatch Institute |
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