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Gillis and Dugger, ”U.N. Forecasts 10.1 Billion People by Century's End.”

189 to more than 730 million people by 2100

Ibid.

190 would put Nigeria's population at the level of China in the mid-1960s

”Total Population, CBR, CDR, NIR and TFR of China (19492000),” China Daily, August 20, 2010.

191 significant declines in child and infant mortality

Potts and Campbell, ”The Myth of 9 Billion”; Robert Kunzig, ”Population 7 Billion,” National Geographic, January 2011.

192 beginning of the nineteenth century-from thirty-five to seventy-seven years

Kunzig, ”Population 7 Billion.”

193 compared to 8 percent in 1970-of college students in Saudi Arabia were women

UNESCO Inst.i.tute for Statistics, Global Education Digest 2009: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World, 2009, /template/pdf/ged/2009/GED_2009_EN.pdf, p. 227.

194 Arab states is now 48 percent; in Iran 51 percent

UNESCO Inst.i.tute for Statistics, Global Education Digest 2011, 2011, /Education/Pages/ged-2011.aspx.

195 67 of the 120 nations for which statistics are available

Gary S. Becker, William H. J. Hubbard, and Kevin M. Murphy, ”The Market for College Graduates and the Worldwide Boom in Higher Education of Women,” American Economic Review 100, no. 2 (2010): 22933.

196 The world average is 51 percent

Ibid.; World Bank, The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa, MENA Development Report, 2008, siteresources.worldbank.org/INTMENA/Resources/EDU_Flags.h.i.+p_Full_ENG.pdf, p. 171.