population of many millions

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• Population Trends — ▪ 1999 Introduction Demography       At midyear 1998, world population stood at 5,926,000,000, according to estimates prepared by the Population Reference Bureau. This total represented an increase of 84 million over the previous year, firmly… …   Universalium

• Population transfer in the Soviet Union — may be classified into the following broad categories: deportations of anti Soviet categories of population, often classified as enemies of workers , deportations of nationalities, labor force transfer, and organized migrations in opposite… …   Wikipedia

• Population Services International — (PSI):PSI is a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that harnesses the vitality of the private sector to address the health problems of low income andvulnerable populations in more than 60 developing countries. With programs in… …   Wikipedia

• Population control — is the practice of limiting population increase, usually by reducing the birth rate. The practice has sometimes been voluntary, as a response to poverty, environmental concerns, or out of religious ideology, but in some times and places it has… …   Wikipedia

• population — populational, adj. populationless, adj. /pop yeuh lay sheuhn/, n. 1. the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district or area. 2. the body of inhabitants of a place: The population of the city opposes the addition of… …   Universalium

• Population history of indigenous peoples of the Americas — Natives of North America. Natives of South America. The po …   Wikipedia

• Population history of American indigenous peoples — It is thought that up to 100 million indigenous people may have lived in the Americas when the 1492 voyage of Christopher Columbus began a historical period of large scale European interaction with the Americas. European contact with what they… …   Wikipedia

• Population mondiale — Carte des pays par population (2009) La population mondiale désigne le nombre d êtres humains vivant sur Terre à un instant donné. Elle est estimée à 7 milliards au 31 octobre 2011 selon les Nations unies[1], alors qu elle éta …   Wikipédia en Français

• Population and Human Relations — ▪ 1996 Introduction DEMOGRAPHY       At midyear 1995, world population stood at 5,702,000,000, according to estimates prepared by the Population Reference Bureau. The 1995 figure was about 700 million higher than in 1987, when world population… …   Universalium

• Population —    Italy’s official population in the census taken in 2001 was just under 57 million. Since 2001, immigration from the third world and Eastern Europe has increased rapidly, and the best estimate of Italy’s population is currently about 58.5… …   Historical Dictionary of modern Italy