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Over the past half century, most population growth has occurred in the developing world. In high-birth rate countries such as Kenya, the population not only grows, it grows younger. Forty-three percent of Kenya's population is under 14, compared to 21 percent for the United States. Populations are similarly skewed throughout Asia and Africa, where at any one time children make up between one-third and one-quarter of the world's fastest growing populations. But regardless of their location, or their relative numbers, today's children face serious problems that stem from a distribution of resources that is both unequal and unsustainable.
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