World population to 2300 / United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division.
In addition to the World population prospects, published every two years, the United Nations periodically prepares supplementary world population projections referred to as long-range projections. The Population Division has adopted two major innovations for this new set of long-range population pro...
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United Nations,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Projections to 2050
- Projections after 2050 : long-range growth and decline
- Country rankings
- Population density
- Ageing populations
- Conclusion
- pt. 2. Towards an understanding of the emotions in the population of 2300 / Alaka Basu
- An intergenerational rationale for fertility assumptions in long-range world population projections / Herwig Birg
- The implications of the United Nations long-range population projections / John Caldwell
- Comparing long-range global population projections with historical experience / Joel Cohen
- World population in 2300 : a century too far? / David Coleman
- Population futures for the next three hundred years : soft landing or surprises to come? / Paul Demeny
- Why the world's population will probably be less than 9 billion in 2300 / Tomothy Dyson
- Reflections on the next few centuries / François Héran
- The future of human life expectancy / S. Jay Olshansky
- Projecting the unknowable : a professional effort sure to be misinterpreted / Michael Teitelbaum
- The implications of the United NAtions long-range population projections : continuing rapid population growth / Charles F. Westoff
- Foretelling the future / John R. Wilmoth.