Rapid population growth means a bulging youth population.

Throughout most of the twentieth century Mexico's population was characterized by rapid growth.

The alternative is a vicious circle of violence and poverty, exacerbated by rapid population growth.

The population is characterized by rapid growth and a very high proportion of young people.

Rapid output growth without equally rapid capital stock or employment growth must have reflected rapid productivity growth.

Moreover, rapid population growth and bungled economic policy have made Iran excessively dependent on food imports.

The interwar period saw a rapid growth in the city's population, which surpassed one million inhabitants.

This, along with the rapid population growth, has profoundly influenced the urban development of the city.

India, which has one sixth of the world's population, is on a rapid economic growth path.

Thus, paradoxically, saving children s lives is part of the solution to rapid population growth in poor countries.

The socio economic changes cited included rapid population growth, high food demand, and land and ecological degradation.

Another area with a pressing need for action is maternal health, due to rapid population growth in Madagascar.

Growth in real output has averaged around 5 percent in the past seven years, but rapid population growth has offset much of this increase.

After all, the majority of their population has benefited immensely from decades of rapid, natural resource based economic growth.

Rapid population growth, coupled with political and social turmoil , helped make Haiti the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere.

Rapid urbanization, especially in Africa, was a threat to sustainable development and could not coexist with high population growth.

Rapid population growth, unsustainable water use and increasing pollution levels further contribute to water scarcity problems in the region.

Growth can be rapid.

The fact that, during the transition, mortality reductions usually precede fertility reductions leads to a period of rapid population growth.

The rapid population growth in these periods was due to high birth rates at a time when mortality started to diminish.

Will China s rapid growth persist?

Nevertheless, due to very rapid population growth the cityscape has gone through one of the most massive changes in all of Finland.

Colombia experienced rapid population growth like most countries, but four decades of an armed conflict pushed millions of Colombians out of the country.

Conversely, high fertility and rapid population growth have hindered the achievement of universal primary education in many developing countries, especially the least developed.

Indeed, the region s population explosion and rapid urbanization, along with the accelerating pace of tourism development, already means water scarcity is holding back growth.

But Britain s rapid growth created severe problems.

The leading regions have experienced rapid growth.

Saving in China is in part a virtuous circle rapid economic growth leads to high saving, which in turn sustains rapid growth.

This raises the question of whether Japan s current problems sluggish growth, high public debt, and rapid population aging presage a similar trend across East Asia.

Rapid population growth from around one million in 1920 to around seven million today made all of this far more deadly by slashing living standards.

However, serious obstacles such as rapid population growth and social, cultural and resource problems stood in the way of efforts to improve the situation of children.

Indeed, rapid growth in investment may translate into high import growth and trade deficits.

To top it off, throughout the Middle East (as well as Sub Saharan Africa and most of South Asia), rapid population growth is fueling enormous demographic pressures.

Yes, China s rapid growth poses challenges to the West.

In addition to poverty, backwardness, repression, rapid population growth, religious and ethnic hatred, and stateless peoples (such as the Kurds and the Palestinians), the region has unstable borders.

China s rapid growth has been achieved at extremely high cost.

First, it depends heavily on rapid growth in foreign demand.

Rapid population growth, a dramatic increase in water consumption due to industrial, agricultural, and tourism growth, and rising standards of living will make the water issue even more important to the region s political stability than it is already.

The growth of the Mozambican population will depend on the rhythm of natural growth of the population.

Nor can we expect rapid GDP growth to save these countries.

Rapid economic growth in developing countries is helping to alleviate poverty.

Sustained, rapid and broad based growth is fundamental to our task.

After a couple of centuries of relative stagnation, these two countries, containing nearly two fifths of the world s population, have experienced remarkably rapid income growth in the last three decades.

As a result, their inability to reform, combined with rapid population growth and a rising cohort of young people, is placing them under pressure, creating a possibility of explosive change.

In the urban areas, more economic and social activities, and greater freedom of movement, expression and religion may be observed, leading to rapid population growth without the corresponding infrastructural support.