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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
World population in the year 2000 was 6.09 billion, according to recent estimates by the United Nations (UN 2005). This number is almost 410 million lower than the year 2000-estimate that the UN expected in 1973. The UN ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
World population in the year 2000 was 6.09 billion, according to recent estimates by the United Nations (UN 2005). This number is almost 410 million lower than the year 2000-estimate that the UN expected in 1973. The UN ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Future trends in population size, age structure, regional distribution, and other demographic variables are important for a wide range of planning situations. Hence, many statistical agencies and independent researchers ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
I review methods for projecting the family structure of a population into the future. The focus is on Western countries. I define the concept of “family”, and stress the close link between family and household. There is ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
Many statistical agencies routinely produce population forecasts, and revise these forecasts when new data become available, or when current demographic trends indicate that an update is necessary. When the forecaster ...