During the last 300 years world population has increased roughly tenfold. In 1700 world population was less than 700 million. Today on the eve of the twenty-first century, it stands close to 6 billion. While population growth rates have begun to decline throughout much of the world in recent times, population is expected almost to double again to some 11 billion, before stabilizing by the late twenty-second century.
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