Demographics

Developing Nations Account for 98 Percent of World Population Growth

Published in AIDS Weekly, August 11th, 1997

In 1997, the world's developing countries accounted for 98 percent of world population increase. The current prospect is for that imbalance to continue.

This conclusion is drawn from the yearly report card of world population trends from the Population Reference Bureau (PRB), a Washington-based demographic research group. Data for all countries of the world appear on its annual World Population Data Sheet, a widely-used source of global demographic trends. The developing countries (also known as less developed), as defined by the United Nations, comprise the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania, excluding Australia, Japan, and New Zealand.

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