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1. Introduction

verfasst von : Arnab De, Rituparna Bose, Ajeet Kumar, Subho Mozumdar

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Abstract

The world population is increasing massively, and it is said that there has been an increase from 2.5 billion in 1950 to 6.1 billion in the year 2000. This means that the population of Earth has grown more than double in the past 50 years. It is expected that by the year 2050, the world population will be about 9.1 billion

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Metadaten
Titel
Introduction
verfasst von
Arnab De
Rituparna Bose
Ajeet Kumar
Subho Mozumdar
Copyright-Jahr
2014
Verlag
Springer India
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1689-6_1