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Projections of population based upon mid-century fertility rates have had to be altered downward. 650,000,000 people projected to be on the planet by the middle of the 21st. Century will never be born. From: "The Population Explosion is Over," by Ben J. Wattenberg in The New York Times Magazine.
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According to the demographer and author, Ben Wattenberg, who is paraphrased above, the rapidly declining birth rates around the world have resulted in population experts revising their estimations of world population growth and numbers. The revised estimate projects 650 million people fewer in the 21st century than anticipated during the 20th century.
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