Challenges and Opportunities: The Population of the Middle East and North Africa.

The population size of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) quadrupled in the last half of the 20th century, thanks to rapidly falling death rates and slowly declining fertility rates. One outcome of MENA's recent demographic trends is an increasingly obvious youth bulge, which...

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Published in:	Population Bulletin Vol. 62; no. 2; pp. 3 - 20
Main Authors:	Roudi-Fahimi, Farzaneh, Kent, Mary Mederios
Format:	Article
Published:	Population Reference Bureau, Inc. June 2007
Subjects:	Social history North Africa Middle East
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost