ABSTRACT
There are more than seven billion people in the world(1) which, due to improving health and increasing birth rate, is expected by some analysts to double in less than 30 years in developing nations and in less than 100 years in the developed world. Apparently, as people become more fi nancially secure and educated, birth rates do not increase at such a steep rate and while the world rate of increase has slowed since the 1960’s, analysts still estimate there will be an 8 to 10.5 billion world wide population by the year 2050. Sadly, it is the developing nations that need substantially reduced birth rates, at least until food production safely matches populations.
