The End of World Population Growth in the 21st Century
Subtitle: New Challenges for Human Capital Formation and Sustainable Development (Population and Sustainable Development Series)
Contributors: Wolfgang Lutz (Editor); Warren Sandersen (Editor); Sergei Scherbov (Editor)
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Published: April 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781844070893
Subjects: Economic forecasting; Population & demography; Sustainability; Development - Sustainable Development; Social Science; Sociology; Demography; Social Science / Demography; Demographic transition; Forecasts; Population forecasting; Twenty-first century
First sentence: While the 20th century was the century of population growthwith the world's population increasing from 1.6 to 6.1 billionthe 21st century is likely to see the end of world population growth and become the century of population aging.