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Re: Yuri receives hypocrite of the week award (was Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy)
In <01bbe1f9$cd40c160$6b093593@Rick> "Richard W. Tarara"
<rtarara@saintmarys.edu> writes:
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>jw <jwas@ix.netcom.com> wrote in article
>> No: the absolute growth is already decreasing:
>> year populatiion rate absolute
>> increase
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>> 1989 5,194,206,959 1.67 87,337,583
>> 1990 5,281,544,542 1.58 83,947,792
>> 1991 5,365,492,334 1.52 82,302,295
>> 1992 5,447,794,629 1.48 81,284,496
>> 1993 5,529,079,125 1.44 80,305,662
>> 1994 5,609,384,787 1.45 82,033,007
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>> 1995 5,691,417,794 1.41 80,933,222
>> 1996 5,772,351,016 1.38 80,362,443
>> 1997 5,852,713,459 1.36 79,912,950
>> 1998 5,932,626,409 1.33 79,640,559
>> 1999 6,012,266,968 1.31 79,210,215
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>> 2000 6,091,477,183 1.28 78,710,475
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>First of all, by listing 10 significant figures (even for the year
2000
>estimate) you show a lack of understanding of this kind of data.
My poor friend, I only "show" accuracy in quoting my
source. The "lack of understanding" reproach must be addressed
to that source:
||Source: U.S. Bureau of the Census, International Data Base.
||Updated 2-28-96
Please write to them and teach them how to publish
statistics Tarara-wise.
[Sorry: I had no time to read Mr Tarara's further - no doubt
interesting - remarks...]
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