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Coastal populations

Posted: 12 Oct 2004

With the exception of sub-Saharan Africa and parts of parts of Central and South Asia, coastal populations are growing at a faster rate than those further inland:

Close to 4 billion people - two-thirds of humanity - live within 400 km of a seacoast.
Roughly 3.1 billion people - half of the world's population - lives within 200 km of a coast, occupying only 10 per cent of the earth's land surface.
In Latin America, the most urbanized of the developing regions, three-quarters of the entire population - 382 million - live within 200 km of a seacoast.

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