As a result, some believe the sense of urgency that once surrounded population control has subsided.
In 1980 he made a wager with a well-known environmentalist and population control advocate, Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich.
But this figure shows that China has a lot of elbow room in which to maneuver in population control.
The UN has recently, and not before time, decided that population control should be one of its much-vaunted Millennium Development Goals.
The population control accounts for the big difference between the increase in employment of 117, 000 and the decline in unemployment of 622, 000.
India at that time was the World Bank's biggest client, and the bank made loans for health projects conditional on population control.
But while there are many who would agree we live on a crowded isle, population control comes at a cost - social and economic.
Enthusiasts for population control say they do not want coercion.
No less important, American military officers helped make abortion the population control tool of choice in those Asian countries where they wielded influence, first in Japan in the late 1940s and 1950s, then South Korea in the 1960s.
This, some predict, will eventually lead to a more relaxed policy towards population-control, even in the big cities.
The Catholic church campaigned ceaselessly against population-control programmes, though not primarily for the sake of the women they hurt.
Both these institutions have backed strict population-control measures in the Philippines so that the nation can meet the 2015 Millennium Development Goals.
The States will ask people for their views on how to control population levels ahead of a debate in March.
There can be little doubt now that the Taliban will be driven from their last significant outpost of Kandahar, leaving no large centres of population under their control.
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The right response to that, though, would be to curb pollution and try to alter the pattern of growth to make it less resource-intensive, rather than to control population directly.
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Syria will reach the limit of food self-sufficiency in 10-35 years, depending on the effectiveness of its measures to improve irrigation efficiency and agricultural yields, and to control population growth.
"We have made it clear that the points based system will allow the Government to manage immigration which in turn will help contribute to future population projections and control, " said the spokesman.
Jersey's housing rules have not helped control the population, says a Guernsey politician.
But ranchers and farmers in Wyoming have long argued that wolves prey on their livestock and want to be able to control the population.
Our goal is not to control the population: It is to empower women and families, giving them a say over when they will bring another child into this world.
The prosecution thus has to prove both that Mr Taylor bears responsibility for the actions of a third party (always a difficult task), and to show that he was arming the rebels so as to terrorise the Sierra Leonean population and to gain control of the country's diamonds.
Conservative MEP Ashley Fox said it could lead to a loss of control over rat population across the continent.
The Flemish population has been seeking more control over tax policy while Walloons want greater protection and more money for the region around the capital, Brussels.
As the Afghans -- the whole idea in the military strategy is to halt the momentum of the Taliban, reverse it, degrade their capabilities and deny them control of major population centers.
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The agency cited another study, a 2007 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention population-based report, that estimated acetaminophen was the likely cause of most of the estimated 1, 600 acute liver failures each year.
This means there isn't a control method in their population as they won't run out of food or habitat.
It is thought they were killed off by rats brought in by ships or by stoats introduced to control the local rabbit population.
Unfortunately, while it was a noble effort, and the plan did effectively wipe out the uninsured population, it did nothing to control the cost of health care.
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Muslims, strengthened by America's Equip and Train programme and by covert arms supplies from Islamic states, may reckon they have reason enough to start fighting: some 40% of Bosnia's population before the war, they now control only 27% of the land.
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