World Population Profile: 1998 with a Special Chapter Focusing on HIV/AIDS in the211 Developing World

摘要

This edition of the Census Bureau's World Population Profile series provides a211u001ecomprehensive assessment of world demographic prospects as we approach the end of 211u001ethis century and the beginning of the next. It highlights major demographic 211u001etrends, the roles played by the world's less developed and more developed nations 211u001ein these trends, the roles played by some of the world's largest nations, and 211u001esome of the factors and uncertainties underlying global population change. The 211u001especial focus section of the report provides an update on one of the key 211u001einternational health and demographic events of our time, and a source of some of 211u001ethe uncertainty associated with demographic changes in the coming decades--the 211u001eworldwide HIV/AIDS pandemic.