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Beyond Six Billion : Forecasting the World's Population.
Title:
Beyond Six Billion : Forecasting the World's Population.
Author:
Staff, National Research Council.
ISBN:
9780309504973
Physical Description:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Front Matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Accuracy of Past Projections -- 3 Transitional Fertility -- 4 Posttransition Fertility -- 5 Mortality -- 6 International Migration -- 7 The Uncertainty of Population Forecasts -- Biographical Sketches -- Index -- APPENDIX A Computer Software Packages for Projecting Population -- APPENDIX B Accuracy of Population Projections from the 1970s to the 1990s -- APPENDIX C Predicting the Pace of Fertility Decline -- APPENDIX D The Effect of Projection Error in Life Expectancy -- APPENDIX E Simulating Migration Projections -- APPENDIX F Estimating Expected Errors from Past Errors.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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