A Guide to Global Population Projections
Interdisciplinary studies that draw on long-term, global population projections often make limited use of projection results, due at least in part to the historically opaque nature of the projection process. We present a guide to such projections aimed at researchers and educators who would benefit...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
2001-06-01
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| description | Interdisciplinary studies that draw on long-term, global population projections often make limited use of projection results, due at least in part to the historically opaque nature of the projection process. We present a guide to such projections aimed at researchers and educators who would benefit from putting them to greater use. Drawing on new practices and new thinking on uncertainty, methodology, and the likely future courses of fertility and life expectancy, we discuss who makes projections and how, and the key assumptions upon which they are based. We also compare methodology and recent results from prominent institutions and provide a guide to other sources of demographic information, pointers to projection results, and an entry point to key literature in the field. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a8aca441a0de4456b62267e2820d7c702022-12-21T18:51:00ZengMax Planck Institute for Demographic ResearchDemographic Research1435-98712001-06-0148A Guide to Global Population ProjectionsInterdisciplinary studies that draw on long-term, global population projections often make limited use of projection results, due at least in part to the historically opaque nature of the projection process. We present a guide to such projections aimed at researchers and educators who would benefit from putting them to greater use. Drawing on new practices and new thinking on uncertainty, methodology, and the likely future courses of fertility and life expectancy, we discuss who makes projections and how, and the key assumptions upon which they are based. We also compare methodology and recent results from prominent institutions and provide a guide to other sources of demographic information, pointers to projection results, and an entry point to key literature in the field.http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol4/8/forecastingpopulation projections |
| spellingShingle | A Guide to Global Population Projections Demographic Research forecasting population projections |
| title | A Guide to Global Population Projections |
| title_full | A Guide to Global Population Projections |
| title_fullStr | A Guide to Global Population Projections |
| title_full_unstemmed | A Guide to Global Population Projections |
| title_short | A Guide to Global Population Projections |
| title_sort | guide to global population projections |
| topic | forecasting population projections |
| url | http://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol4/8/ |