202 Poverty and Hunger
Another Half-billion
21 Figure 8.4 from US Bureau of the Census, as published in Francis Urban and Ray Nightingale,
World Population by Country and Region, 1950–90 and Projections to 2050 (Washington DC: US
Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS), 1993); 1900 world pop-
ulation from United Nations, The Future Growth of World Population (Rome: 1958).
22 Bureau of the Census, op. cit. note 21.
23 Grainland per capita calculated with population from Bureau of the Census, op. cit. note 21, and
grain area from USDA, ERS, ‘Production, Supply, and Demand View’ (electronic database),
Washington DC, November 1994; grain trade data from ibid.
24 Population from Bureau of the Census, op. cit, note 21.
25 Susan Cotts Watkins and Jane Menken, ‘Famines in Historical Perspective’, Population and Devel-
opment Review, December 1985.
26 Ibid.
27 Figure 8.5 from United Nations, Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, February 1994.
28 Figure 8.6 from US Bureau of the Census, Center for International Research, Suitland, MD, pers.
comm., 6 February 1995.
29 John R. Bermingham, ‘China’s Population Puzzle’, Colorado Population Coalition, Denver, CO,
Fall 1994.
30 Michael S. Teitelbaum, ‘The Population Threat’, Foreign Affairs, Winter 1992/93.
31 India’s population from Bureau of the Census, op. cit. note 21.
32 Aaron Segal, An Atlas of International Migration (London: Hanz Zell Publishers, 1993).
33 Zha Ruichuan and Qiao Xiachun, ‘A Study of the Age Structure of China’s Population’, China
Population Today, December 1992; Steve Mufson, ‘Chinese Leader Presses for “One Couple, One
Child’’’, Washington Post, 21 March 1995.
34 Mufson, op. cit. note 33.
35 Population projection from Bureau of the Census, op. cit. note 21; Figure 8.7 from Zha and
Qiao, op. cit. note 33.
36 Carl Haub, ‘China’s Fertility Drop Lowers World Growth Rate’, Population Today, June 1993.
37 Ibid.; Carl Haub, Population Reference Bureau, Washington DC, pers. comm., 19 April 1995.
38 Jiang quoted in Mufson, op. cit. note 33.