The Human Tide
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Victorian age: changing social conditions, 72; family size, 13; world population, 12
Vienna: improved conditions, 5
Vietnam: life expectancy, 23
Vietnam War, 138
violence: and average age, 16
Voltaire, François Marie Arouet, 20
Wales: population growth, 59; see also England (and Wales)
Warburg, Sigmund, 111
water consumption and supply, 237–9
Waugh, Evelyn: Black Mischief, 133
Webb, Beatrice, 90
Webb, Sydney (Baron Passfield), 90–1
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of, 19
Wells, H. G., 45
West, the: decline, 162
West Bank (Israel): fertility rate, 249–50, 252
West Side Story (musical), 256, 275
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany: Edward VII’s antipathy to, 92; urges Nicholas II of Russia to wage war on Japan, 195; on ‘Yellow Peril’, 203
Wilson, Woodrow, 88, 130, 228
women: attain old age, 149; decision making, 37; delay marriage, 75; educational levels, 140–1, 167, 244; emancipation, 130; falling numbers of children, 71–2; fertility rates, 6, 10, 13, 23, 31–2; in Japan, 204; Muslim, 232–3, 238, 244; as political leaders, 142; in Soviet Russia, 106, 174, 179–80; see also feminism
Woolf, Leonard, 4–5, 126
World Economic Forum, 205
world population: changes in rate and distribution, 11–12, 14–15; increase to present day, 6–7
World Trade Organisation, 56
‘Yellow Peril’, the, 118, 203
Yeltsin, Boris, 178, 183
Yemen: average age, 16; child deaths, 48–9, 230; fertility rate, 230, 263; instability, 242; low water consumption, 237; population growth, 103, 224–5; social change, 224–5
youth culture, 137–8
Yugoslavia: conflicts, 189–90
Zaire/Congo: wars, 8
Zimbabwe: rise of indigenous population, 228
Zionism, 246–50, 252
Zuma, Jacob, 268
Zweig, Stefan, 5
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