Optimum World Population
- 1 February 1970
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in BioScience
- Vol. 20 (3) , 160-161
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1295039
Abstract
Optimum population is hard to define. However, if the ability to provide current living standards in the United States is used as the criterion, the optimum world population at present is of the order of one billion people, compared to the actual population of about 3 billion 600 million.Keywords
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