ABSTRACT
As noted in Chapter 1, the demographic prospect for individual countries has never varied more widely than it does today. In some industrial nations, populations are already stable and are projected to decline somewhat over the next half-century, while in others they are projected to more than triple. But are such increases realistic? The preceding analysis of 19 dimensions of the population problem raises doubts as to whether the expected population doublings and triplings in scores of developing countries will in fact materialize.
