"Although predicting the future is always risky, we can be fairly certain of the general trends now expected in global population in the next few decades. The world will add billions to its population, through additions made almost exclusively in the world's poorer nations. This can only be expected, since developing countries already represent most of the world's population. These anticipated changes, that now seem almost inevitable, loom large as the backdrop against which today's policy choices are to be made, both in and out of government."
Global and U.S. National Population Trends - by Carl Haub Consequences. Vol. 1, No. 2, Summer 1995.
The only passage in Text III that directly supports the predictions anticipated in the fragment above is
"By 2030, the urban population will reach 5 billion – 60 per cent of the world's population." (lines 2-3).
"Most of the population increase expected during 2005-2030 will be absorbed by the urban areas of the less developed regions whose population will likely rise from 1.9 billion in 2000 to nearly 4 billion in 2030." (lines 13-16).
"During 2005-2030, the world's urban population will grow at an average annual rate of 1.8 per cent, nearly double the rate expected for the total population of the world (1 per cent per year)." (lines 20-23).
"In contrast, the rural population of the less developed regions is expected to grow very slowly, at just 0.1 per cent per year during 2000-2030." (lines 28-30).
"The rapid increase of the world's urban population coupled with the slowing growth of the rural population has led to a major redistribution of the population." (lines 31-33).
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