
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 3, 1994                   TAG: 9405030137
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A6   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                 LENGTH: Short

THIRD WORLD POPULATION SETS RECORD

Only three of every 100 people added to the world's population are born in developed countries, and Third World population grows at record rates.

The latest worldwide data released Monday by the private Population Reference Bureau show that the spread of public and private family planning programs is having little impact on worldwide trends.

When balanced with deaths, the bureau's world population clock shows the number of people growing at the rate of nearly 90 million people a year, 7.5 million a month, 1.7 million a week, 245,000 a day, 10,000 an hour, or 170 a minute - 164 of them in poor countries.

Based on United Nations and country-supplied statistics, world population stands at 5.6 billion - 4.4 billion in developing countries and 1.2 billion in the industrialized world.

- Associated Press

by CNB