Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (December 1, 2004)

Title	Author	Type	Words
Baby bust: one of the main reasons birth rates are down in Canada is the tendency of women to delay starting families until later in life, with the average age of a woman having her first child at about 29.			2373
Carrying capacity: "private sector economists expect real GDP growth in Canada to average 2.7 percent in 2004 ... [and] 3.3 percent in 2005." 2004 Federal Budget Document.			514
Doctor doom: more than 200 years ago, Thomas Malthus wrote an essay in which he put forward the theory that human population growth would outstrip food production, and that this would lead to wars and starvation that would reduce the population to a manageable size.			2880
Living on the edge: as the world's population grows people are pushed into areas that are basically uninhabitable.			2072
Our communities--definition.			2883
Our country--the economy.			3700
Our families--traditional.			2778
Our people--the national mood.			4319
Putting the brakes on reproduction.			2040
Quote ... unquote.			269
Six billion and counting: it took all of recorded history until 1804 for world population to reach one billion; it took another 123 years to reach two billion; by 1960, it hit three billion; 1975, four billion; 1986, five billion; and, in 1999, we crossed the six billion mark.			1397
Ten years later: the 1994 United Nations International Conference on Population and Development, which took place in Cairo, Egypt, was a watershed event for population control. Since then, some progress has been made, but a lot remains to be done.			2573
The census.			730