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THE UNITED NATIONS has predicted that the world’s human population will increase over the next 60 years from the current 5.48 billion to 10 billion people. This is faster than previously thought. "We are faced with dual crises," said the director of the United Nations Population Fund, Ms Nafis Sadik in May. "World population is growing faster than ever before . . . and so is human consumption of resources. Together they heighten the possibility of future economic and ecological catastrophe." The world’s population is now expected to reach 6 billion by 1998, two years earlier than previously estimated. The estimated average annual increase will be 97 million people over the next decade and over half of this will occur in Africa and south Asia.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 265, 1 August 1992, Page 7
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124More people Forest and Bird, Issue 265, 1 August 1992, Page 7
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