Abstract
Fully recognizing the dangers of overgeneralization, this paper is designed to highlight the similarities as well as the differences that prevail when one takes an overview of population activities in the different geographic areas of the world. The papers that follow are grouped by geographic regions but this overview will take certain liberties with this organization for purposes of better understanding. We will refer to only 6 areas: Latin America, Subsaharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, the Asian area including China and India, and briefly, the developed world, and the socialist world.
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