Central America Growing Fastest
The area with the fastest growing population in the world today is a bloc of six mainland countries of Central America where population is increasing by 3.6 per cent each year. If unchanged, this rate will double the population in just 19 years. It would increase the population 64-fold in a century, according to the Population Reference Bureau, Washington. D C. World population, growing bv 1.8 per cent annually, will double in 38 years.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30337, 13 January 1964, Page 2
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78Central America Growing Fastest Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30337, 13 January 1964, Page 2
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