Data from the UN shows that world population continues to grow, although overall growth has slowed. However, the pattern varies by development status and by region. For more developed countries, population has been growing at a slower rate at least since the 1950s. On the other hand, in least developed countries population growth accelerated up to the 1980s and has not yet slowed. As a consequence of varying growth rates, world population distribution has changed. The proportion of the world population that is from all developing countries increased from 68% in 1950 to 82% in 2010.
Looking at world population by region shows that population is growing slower in Europe and Northern America then it is in other areas of the world. Sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing region and population in one sub-region, Eastern Europe, has declined in the past decade. As a consequence, the major regional changes are that Sub-Saharan Africa increased as a share of world population, from 7.4% in 1950 to 12.4% in 2010 and Europe decreased from 21.6% in 1950 to 10.7% in 2010. Other regions stayed about the same.
These trends are shown in our report, Brief Review of World Population Trends, posted at the Social Science Research Network,
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1966739.
Gene Shackman
The Global Social Change Research Project
http://gsociology.icaap.org
Looking at world population by region shows that population is growing slower in Europe and Northern America then it is in other areas of the world. Sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing region and population in one sub-region, Eastern Europe, has declined in the past decade. As a consequence, the major regional changes are that Sub-Saharan Africa increased as a share of world population, from 7.4% in 1950 to 12.4% in 2010 and Europe decreased from 21.6% in 1950 to 10.7% in 2010. Other regions stayed about the same.
These trends are shown in our report, Brief Review of World Population Trends, posted at the Social Science Research Network,
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1966739.
Gene Shackman
The Global Social Change Research Project
http://gsociology.icaap.org
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