Bonn: bleak prospects surround the UN desgnation of 1974 as "World P opulation Year"
According to forecasts of the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbade n (Federal Republic of Germany) mankind will grow from a present world total of just under 3900 million to over 6500 million by the year 2000. A new study freshly published by the World Bank even reckons with the presence of 7200 million homo sapiens by then. The Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development), with headquarters in Washingt on, DC specializes in funding and supervising multilateral development aid projects. It notes that already three quarters of the human race li ve on the three continents of ãAĉAsia, Africa and Latin America and the malnutrition, poverty and disease are rampant in many of their regions. The World Bank expects the population figures for these continentscont inents to continue to rise at above average rates, predicting they will shalter more than four fifths of mankind by the year 2000.
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