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The Role Of Population Growth In The United States
In the world, we live in today, population has grown at an increasing rate. I hypothesize that population growth will continue to climb in underdeveloped countries. Seen through population patterns in dispersion of countries, North America and South America have had two different types of dispersion. Using data from worldameters.info, United States has an annual rate of 0.73% and Mexico has an annual rate of 1.24%. In Mexico, however, there are events such as sex trafficking where the birth of a child is not always consensual and resources are limited as well as emigration into the U.S Soil which can count for some loss of the population. Per the logistic population growth model, it states that as the rate of increase declines as the carrying
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