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Students import UNEP World population data/projections from either the World Population Prospects: The 2002 Revision Population Database - UN Population Division or a text file. They graph this data by itself, and then along with logistic growth model predictions, and assess the model's ability to simulated the observed past and UNEP future projection of world population.

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population, global population

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11th - Higher Ed
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Science
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Database & Spreadsheet

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