If rapid growth continues, will the human population eventually approach the carrying capacity of the Earth, and be limited by increased disease and competition for resources? Scientists continue ...

Rapid population growth makes it more difficult for low-income and lower-middle-income countries to commit sufficient resources to improving the health and education of their populations.

Like all living organisms, humans exploit their surroundings for resources. Before the beginning ... environments on the planet. Human population growth over the past 10,000 years: The graph ...

It also calls for moving the global economy towards greater sustainability by decoupling the growth in population and in economic activity from a further acceleration of resource extraction ...

At the same time, intra-regional interaction is weak, being restricted principally to labor flows, with limited ... rapid population growth and slower economic growth, they now must absorb a growing ...