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              WORLD POPULATION GROWTH FROM YEAR 0 TO STABILIZATION

                       Data from the Population Division
       Department of Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis


               Year         Population (in billions)       Source

               0                      0.30                 Durand
               1000                   0.31                 Durand
               1250                   0.40                 Durand
               1500                   0.50                 Durand
               1750                   0.79                 D & C
               1800                   0.98                 D & C
               1850                   1.26                 D & C
               1900                   1.65                 D & C
               1910                   1.75                 Interp.
               1920                   1.86                 WPP63
               1930                   2.07                 WPP63
               1940                   2.30                 WPP63
               1950                   2.52                 WPP94
               1960                   3.02                 WPP94
               1970                   3.70                 WPP94
               1980                   4.45                 WPP94
               1990                   5.30                 WPP94
               1994                   5.63                 WPP94
               2000                   6.23                 WPP94
               2025                   8.47                 WPP94
               2050                  10.02                 LR
               2100                  11.19                 LR
               2150                  11.54                 LR
               Stabilization
               (Just after 2200)     11.6                  LR




  Sources:

  Durand:     J.D. Durand, 1974. Historical Estimates of World Population:
              An Evaluation (University of Pennsylvania, Population Studies
              Center, Philadelphia), mimeo.
  D & C:      United Nations, 1973. The Determinants and Consequences of
              Population Trends, Vol. 1 (United Nations, New York).
  WPP63:      United Nations, 1966. World Population Prospects as
              Assessed in 1963 (United Nations, New York).
  WPP94:      United Nations, 1993. World Population Prospects: The 1994
              Revision (United Nations, New York)
  LR:         United Nations, 1992. Long-range World Population Projection:
              Two Centuries of Population Growth, 1950-2150 (United Nations,
              New York).
  Interp:     Estimate interpolated from adjacent population estimates.

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