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FiGURE 3. Estimated trend in the rate of growth of World
population,, A.D. 700 to 1950. 77ιe point for
1951 was estimated by the U.N., 1952. (Data
from Palmer Cosslctt Putnam, Energy in the
Future [New York, 1953], p, 22.)