Charles F. Westoff, in Sci-Growth eutific ~merican (Dec. 1978),41 5 Madison Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017.
Most of the world's developed countries are now approaching zero population growth, and, if present trends continue, the populations of Europe and Russia will begin to decline at the turn of the century. The population of the United States will stop growing at a total of about 253 million in the year 2015.
The drop in population growth, says Westoff, director of population research at Princeton,...