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Population Size And Components Of Growth By Major Area, 1995-2000

 

Major area

Population 1999
(thousands)

(Annual Average, In Thousands)

Total Growth

Births Deaths Migration
World total 5 978 401 129 810 52 072 0 77 738
More developed regions

Less developed regions
1 185 174

4 793 227
13 224

116 586
11 951

40 121
1 971

-1 971
3 243

74 494


Africa

Asia

Europe

Latin America and the Caribbean

Northern America

Oceania


766 623

3 634 279

728 934

511 345

307 202

30 018


28 115

77 953

7 493

11 554

4 172

527


10 331

27 492

8 248

3 245

2 528

227


-287

-1 207

950

-471

930

81


17 496

49 254

195

7 838

2 574

381

 

Table 3: Published in: Population Division of the Department of
Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat,
The World at Six Billion. (ESA/P/WP.154), 12 October 1999.

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