联合国人口基金会执行主任沙迪克2月15日在第8届联合国贸发大会上说,世界人口目前已超过54亿,每年增加9700万人,预计到1998年将达到60亿,2025年为85亿,2050年将达到100亿。亚洲、非洲和拉丁美洲是世界上人口增长最快的地区。 沙迪克解释说,世界上每年增加的人口中95％在发展中国家,其中一半集中在非洲和南亚。非洲人口增长之快是史无 Sodick, Executive Director of the UN Population Fund, said at the 8th UNCTAD on February 15 that the world’s population now exceeds 5.4 billion with an annual increase of 97 million. It is projected to reach 6 billion by 1998 and 85 by 2025 It will reach 10 billion in 2050. Asia, Africa and Latin America are the fastest growing populations in the world. Sodick explained that 95% of the world’s population increase each year is in developing countries, with half of them concentrated in Africa and South Asia. The rapid growth of Africa’s population is unprecedented