World Population Growth and Aging
Subtitle: Demographic Trends in the Late Twentieth Century
Edition: 2Rev Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: January 7, 1991
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 616
ISBN-13: 9780226432373
Subjects: Population & demography; Human Population; Social Science; Sociology; Politics/International Relations; Demography; Social Science / Demography; Aging; Population; Population forecasting; Statistics
First sentence: This book continues work started at the University of Chicago in the mid-1960s.
Description: Drawing data from official sources in 60 countries, as well as from the United Nations and the World Bank, this compendium of statistical information on population, fertility, and mortality treats every one of the UN-recognized countries in at least summary form. With data from 1950 onward and projections through 2020, this volume extends the dataset of Nathan Keyfitz and Wilhelm Flieger's landmark work, World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data (1968), with virtually no overlap. All the life tables, standardized rates, and projections have been generated by uniform methods to ensure easy comparison among countries. More than 800 charts provide a foundation for analyzing the radical demographic changes now taking place: the historic lows of fertility in Germany and other industrial countries, Africa's persistently high fertility, and the worldwide extension of life expectancy. The product of cautious and painstaking labor, this work promises to be an important resource for further demographic research as well as a valuable comparative resource for studies of the status of global social welfare and the environment.