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Current Levels Of Population Growth, Mortality, Fertility

And Contraceptive Use, By Major Areas

 

Major area

Population
Size,
1999

(millions)

1995-2000 1990s
Population
Growth
Rate,
(per cent)

Life
Expectancy
At Birth,
(years)

Total
Fertility
Rate

Contra-
ceptive
Use

World 5 978 1.3 65 2.7 58
More developed regions

Less developed regions		 1 185

4 793		 0.3

1.6		 75

63		 1.6

3.0		 70

55


Africa

Asia

Europe

Latin America and the Caribbean

Northern America

Oceania


767

3 634

729

511

307

30


2.4

1.4

0.0

1.6

0.8

1.3


51

66

73

69

77

74


5.1

2.6

1.4

2.7

1.9

2.4


20

60

72

66

71

64

Total fertility rate is the average number of children per woman.

Contraceptive use is the per cent of currently married women.

 

 

Table 13: 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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