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精英翻譯社轉自

http://www.wordsgo.com/english/intermediate/part-01/lesson-01/intermediate-slow-lesson-01.html

聯合國估計世界人口達到七十億。人口在非洲和一些亞洲貧窮國家快速增加，但出生率極低的日本和歐洲國家卻必須憂慮勞工短缺的問題。中國是全世界人口最多的國家，有十三億，印度排名第二，有十二億。

The world reached seven billion people on Monday. Population experts at the United Nationsestimated that the world reached six billion in October 1999. They predict nine billion by 2050 and ten billion by the end of the century.

China's population of one and a third billion is currently the world's largest. India is second at 1.2 billion. But India is expected to pass China and reach one and a half billion people around 2025.

Populations are growing faster than economies in many poor countries in Africa and some in Asia. At the same time, low fertility rates in Japan and many European nations have raised concern about labor shortages.