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Old 08-12-2014, 08:58 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by FireFly View Post
Yeah, I was gonna ask if they are including in their information the number of people who have or will die of AIDS or other STDs and whatnot. Sure they have a lot of babies, but there's also a lot of illness and war as well.
On that note, do the authors assume that Africans will (hopefully) have better access to education and contraception in the future (both of which correlate very strongly to smaller family sizes), or are they only using current birth rates and extrapolating from there?
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