Seven billion people are not the issue: Human development is what counts

Friday, October 28, 2011 - 13:30 in Mathematics & Economics

As the global media speculate on the number of people likely to inhabit the planet on October 31 an international team of population and development experts argue that it is not simply the number of people that matters but more so their distribution by age, education, health status and location that is most relevant to local and global sustainability.

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