<div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ruglucia@paho.org">ruglucia@paho.org</a>></span><br>crossposted from: <a href="mailto:EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org">EQUIDAD@listserv.paho.org</a><br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="maroon" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">World Population Prospects: The 2008 Revision</span></font></b></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs </span></font></b></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><b><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Population Division, March 2009</span></font></b></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The official United Nations estimations and projections of population for all countries of the world, covering the period 1950-2050. </span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Press release: <a href="http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2008/pressrelease.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2008/pressrelease.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>Data Online : <a href="http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">http://esa.un.org/unpp/index.asp</span></font></a> </span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><br>Selected Tables: </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span lang="FR" style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2008/wpp2008_text_tables.pdf" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span lang="EN-US" style="COLOR: navy">http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/wpp2008/wpp2008_text_tables.pdf</span></font></a> </span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The results of the 2008 Revision incorporate the findings of the most recent national population censuses and of numerous specialized population surveys carried out around the world. The 2008 Revision provides the demographic data and indicators to assess trends at the global, regional and national levels and to calculate many other key indicators commonly used by the United Nations system.</span></font></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">WORLD POPULATION TO EXCEED 9 BILLION BY 2050:</span></font></p>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><i><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Developing Countries to Add 2.3 Billion Inhabitants with 1.1 Billion Aged Over 60 and 1.2 Billion of Working Age</span></font></i></p>

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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="1"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">NEW YORK, 11 March (UN Population Division/DESA)</span></font><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> – <b><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">World population is projected to reach 7 billion early in 2012</span></b>, up from the current 6.8 billion, and surpass 9 billion people by 2050, reveals the <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">2008 Revision </span></i>of the official United Nations population estimates and projections<br>
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<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Most of the additional 2.3 billion people will enlarge the population of developing countries, which is projected to rise from 5.6 billion in 2009 to 7.9 billion in 2050, and will be distributed among the population aged 15-59 (1.2 billion) and 60 or over (1.1 billion) because the number of children under age 15 in developing countries will decrease.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">In contrast, the population of the more developed regions is expected to change minimally, passing from 1.23 billion to 1.28 billion, and would have declined to 1.15 billion were it not for the projected net migration from developing to developed countries, which is projected to average 2.4 million persons annually from 2009 to 2050.</span></font></p>

<p style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in"><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The results of the <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">2008 Revision </span></i>incorporate the findings of the most recent national population censuses and of numerous specialized population surveys carried out around the world. <i><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The 2008 Revision </span></i>provides the demographic data and indicators to assess trends at the global, regional and national levels and to calculate many other key indicators commonly used by the United Nations system.</span></font></p>

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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/2006_MigrationRep/report.htm" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">International Migration Report 2006: A Global Assessment</span></font></a></span></font></p>
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<p><font face="Arial" color="navy" size="2"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><a href="http://www.un.org/esa/population/meetings/panel_policy_MDG/policy_panel.htm" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy">Contribution of population policy to the achievement of the internationally</span></font></a><a href="http://www.un.org/esa/population/meetings/panel_policy_MDG/policy_panel.htm" target="_blank"><font color="navy"><span style="COLOR: navy"> agreed development goals including the Millennium Development Goals</span></font></a><br>
    Panel discussion, New York, 15 December 2008</span></font></p></td></tr></tbody></table>
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