POP/656
2 February 1998
NEW YORK, 3 November (DESA) -- The Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) has issued a wall chart, as a part of its monitoring activities, entitled World Fertility Patterns 1997, covering 167 countries and areas and more than 90 per cent of the population of the world.
On page seven of Press Release POP/639 issued 25 February, the following corrections should be noted in the statement of CARLOS ARAMBURU (Peru):