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By far the greatest factor accelerating the growth of population in underdeveloped parts of the world has been the decline in the death rate. With increasing industrialism and accompanying urbanization, birth rates remain high in many regions notably in South-East Asia, Latin America, and Africa. In Europe and North America, birth and death rates are relatively low and the rate of population increases in Europe is in the region of 0.8 per cent a year. In Asia the natural increase is 2.3 percent and in Latin America it has risen to 2.8 percent a year. The full development of resources, and education to produce attitudes favorable to smaller families—notably the introduction of birth control—would seem the only solution to the world population explosion. The fall in the death rate is chiefly due to a widespread campaign against disease, notably malaria, through medical and economic intervention by the United Nations and its specialized agencies. (152 words)