Author: United Natio
Publisher: United Natio
Keywords: population, world, social, studies, economic, affairs, distribution, prospects, revision, sex, department
Number of Pages: 1092
Published: 2008-01-04
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 9211514304
ISBN-13: 9789211514308

The 2006 Revision builds on the 2004 Revision and incorporates both the results of the 2000 round of national population censuses and of recent specialized surveys carried out in countries around the world. These sources provide both demographic and other information to assess the progress made in achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The comprehensive review of past worldwide demographic trends and future prospects presented in the 2006 Revision provides the population basis for the assessment of those goals. This volume pre

Author: Bernan
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Keywords: population, development, environment, monitoring, world
Number of Pages: 92
Published: 2002-01
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 9211513596
ISBN-13: 9789211513592

Author: Jacqueline Kasun
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Keywords: population, control, world, economics, war, ideology
Number of Pages: 309
Published: 1999-11-02
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0898707129
ISBN-13: 9780898707120

Dr. Jacqueline Kasun, Ph.D.The idea that humanity is multiplying at a terrible and accelerating rate is one of the false dogmas of our times. From that notion springs the widely held belief that unless population growth is immediately contained by every governmental and private method imaginable, mankind faces imminent disaster. These ideas form the basis for an enormous international population-control industry that involves billions of dollars of es as well as the full time efforts of scores of private philanthropies. Embodied in their agenda is the sort of social planning that actually mand

Author: Panel on Population ProjectionsCommittee on Popul
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: population, world, projecting, billion, six
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2000-07-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0309069904
ISBN-13: 9780309069908

Beyond Six Billion asks what such projections really say, why they say it, whether they can be trusted, and whether they can be improved. The book includes analysis of how well past U.N. and World Bank projections have panned out, what errors have occurred, and why they have happened. Focusing on fertility as one key to accurate projections, the committee examines the transition from high, constant fertility to low fertility levels and discusses whether developing countries will eventually attain the very low levels of births now observed in the industrialized world. Other keys to accurate pr

Author: H.A. Gans
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: population, studies, european, transition, forecasting, modernity
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1999-01-31
List price: $148.00
ISBN-10: 0792355377
ISBN-13: 9780792355373

This book is about the transition to modernity of population forecasting. In many countries interest in the future course of population was kindled by debates on the population problem since the turn of the 19th century. The debates were alternately caused by fear of the economic consequences of over-population, by anxiety regarding the strategic demographic aspects of population decline, the decline of the national elite, or by the menace of imminent race suicide. Because population debates tended to be based on emotion rather than `objective’ arguments, some economists and stat

Author: Julie Davanzo
Publisher: Rand Publishing
Keywords: population, federation, matters, russian, trends, demographics, dire
Number of Pages: 70
Published: 2001-09-26
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0833029304
ISBN-13: 9780833029300

In the last few decades of the 20th century, Russian demographics underwent some important changes, including lower fertility rates and higher death rates. This report reviews the factors behind these trends and shows that they raise substantial challenges for policymakers within Russia.

Author: United Nations.Department of Economic and Social A
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Keywords: population, studies, sex, prospects, world
Number of Pages: 930
Published: 2000-01
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 9211513502
ISBN-13: 9789211513509