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NEW YORK // Egypt's population will more than triple to 291 million by the end of this century if fertility rates remain at their current elevated levels, according to a UN report on demographic trends.
The United Nations says the world population is expected to hit seven billion later this year and could become unsustainably high at 14 billion by 2100 unless developing countries bring birth rates under control.
It warns of big potential population increases in Egypt and Yemen, two countries struck by unrest linked to high youth unemployment, food prices and a desire for more political freedoms.
If the average Egyptian woman continues having 2.9 children, the population will grow from 84.5m last year to 291m in 2100. If Yemen's fertility rate remains stable at 5.3, a resource-poor nation could witness 18-fold growth from 24.3 million last year to 434 million people at the end of the century.
"Egypt has seen a decline in fertility but still has a moderately high fertility rate," said Hania Zlotnik, the director of the UN Population Division, which compiled the 30-page report. (Read more)
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