International records / Foreign Relations of the United States

273. Memorandum From the Executive Secretary of the Department of State ( Hill ) to the President’s Assistant for National Security Affairs ( Clark )

s growth will occur in the world’s low-income countries. In most of these countries, the annual increments to population size are growing larger. Areas of strategic and economic importance, including Central America and the Caribbean, Egypt, Turkey, Nigeria, Kenya, Indonesia, the Philippines, Pakistan and India, face a potential doubling of population in the next 20–30 years. Unless birth rates can decline more rapidly, many already crowded countries will triple their populations within the next three generations. Underlying U.S. policy is the recognition that these unprecedented demographic c…