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Heather de Lagran

In Nigeria, a Preview of an Overcrowded Planet - NYTimes.com - 4 views

  • fertility rates
  • eversing longstanding policies
  • are promoting smaller families as a key to economic salvation,
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  • sixth most populous nation with 167 million people,
  • “If you don’t take care of population, schools can’t cope, hospitals can’t cope, there’s not enough housing — there’s nothing you can do to have economic development.”
  • swelling ranks of unemployed youths
  • 5.5 last year from 6.8 in 1975
  • will account for more than a third by 2100
  • 50 percent for people in urban areas ages 15 to 24 — driving crime and discontent.
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