Of a projected population increase of 1.2 billion worldwide by 2025, Western countries would account for only 3percentt, it said.
However increasing demand for rural development, associated with projected population increase, confound existing nutrient management approaches.
With a projected population increase of 1.7 million people by 2020, to 5 million, according to the Southern California Association of Governments, the Inland Empire is under heavy development pressure.
With a projected population increase of 10percentt for the New York area by the year 2000, to 21.3 million, the report said, 2.5 million new housing units will be needed.
That view would emphasize economic development as a means to improve the well-being of people around the world today and at the same time promote measures meant to slow the projected population increase.
The ONS figures show a projected population increase of 9.6 million over the next 25 years from an estimated 63.7 million in mid 2012 to 73.3 million in mid-2037.
There will be many more of the old, already present in disproportionate numbers, and even fewer of the young – a trend that runs counter to the forecast for Scotland as whole, which has a projected population increase of 8.8% over the same period.
The report said the global shift from West to East in terms of wealth and economic power "is without precedent in modern history". Of a projected population increase of 1.2 billion worldwide by 2025, Western countries would account for only 3percentt, it said.
In the 1960s, the Government decided that a further generation of new towns in South East England was needed to take the projected population increase of London, after the initial 1940s/1950s wave.
The southeastern United States, including the Appalachian Highlands, are predicted to have one of the largest increases in urban and exurban development in the United States with a projected population increase to more than 360 million by 2030 [53].
