One important feature of the world's population with the most significant future implications is that

A) the natural increase rate is larger every year.
B) there are fewer people in the world now than at the peak in the middle of the twentieth century.
C) the most rapid growth is occurring in the less developed countries.
D) people are uniformly distributed across Earth.
E) the less developed countries have the highest combined crude death rate.


Answer: C

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