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During the last 2 cent's Europe experienced an unparalleled rise in pop owing to a fall in mortality. After this had gone some way fertility began to decline. At the present time the areas of rapid pop growth are Asia, Africa & Latin America. There the development has been very similar. A decline in mortality has been caused by sudden progress in controlling disease-bearing insects. Fertility has declined in Japan, which is the most industrialized of these countries, & for this reason it has been claimed that the same pattern will be followed by other nations in the East, though it may also be argued that the weakening of certain soc restraints will have a reverse effect. A PEP group in a study of this problem points out that 66% of the world's pop are inadequately nourished & that irregularities in the standard of living between different parts of the world in the short run are likely to increase. They conclude that the rate of pop growth in certain parts of the world should be checked. This may meet with opposition from the Roman Cath's & the communists, & more generally from the forces of soc conservatism, but unless it is done living standards will fall. (IPSA).