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N Population Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Pages 809-811

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... The rules for calculations include the following: Population is projected for the 1990 to 2020 period by using World Bank projections for 1987 to 2000 for each group. The growth rates (as shown in Table N.1)
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... (0.8) 1990 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 2020 2.16 1.87 1.66 1.27 2050 4.03 3.10 2.10 1.61 2100 9.36 4.62 3.12 1.61 Per capita income (1.5)
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... It is probably not feasible to achieve low population growth rates without moving up the development scale. The reduced population growth associated with higher-income growth (and to a small degree with lower-income elasticities as income rises)
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