I have a question that I bet no one can answer: since Europe is losing its population (and I read the same thing is happening in Japan), US would be losing population except for immigration, and Africa and Asia have millions of AIDS cases with more on the way,
****WHERE THE HECK IS THE OVER-POPULATION everyone always bleats about?? That's one of the reasons liberals trot out for abortion, and a host of other stuff. I've been wondering about this for a long time....?
If you look at the sidebar in the New York Times article, you'll have your answer: Niger, Yemen, Somalia, Uganda, Mali, Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Liberia, Burkin Faso, and Burundi are the top 10, with average births per woman ranging from 8 to about 6.4. AIDS hasn't even begun to make a dent in this explosive population growth rate, and what's more, since they begin reproducing at very early ages, the growth rate is even higher than it looks, due to tightly packed generations all living at the same time.
See this link
http://www.worldpress.org/profiles/niger.cfm?startat2=5 for the ugly details on Niger, including: 48% of the population is aged 0-14, 13.6% of population over age 15 is literate (so there's little chance of any significant number of those 0-14 year olds ever learning to read, since there are almost no adults who know how to teach them), only 1.35% of population has AIDS.
Overpopulation is a localized problem more than a global problem, but it's very serious in the areas where it's a problem, creating breeding grounds for brands of violent extremism which can appeal only to ignorant and desperate people, but which can so easily spread terror and cultural/political destruction into other parts of the world.
****WHERE THE HECK IS THE OVER-POPULATION everyone always bleats about?? By definition, this issue only applies to non-white "human weeds." Margaret Sanger's heirs focus a lot of their abortion "service" marketing on minority communities, in faithfulness to her eugenics vision. The irony is -- the sword she forged to wield against the "lesser breeds" has decimated the liberal sophisticates.