Issues in the Study of Rural-urban Migration

Issues in the Study of Rural-urban Migration
Author: United Nations. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific
Publisher:
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1994
Genre: Migration, Internal
ISBN:

Organized by the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) with financial support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) with reference to countries in the Asia and Pacific region.

The Future Population of the World

The Future Population of the World
Author: Wolfgang Lutz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 527
Release: 2013-11-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134065892

The highly acclaimed The Future Population of the World contains the most authoritative assessment available of the extent to which population is likely to grow over the next 50 to 100 years. The book provides a thorough analysis of all the components of population change and translates these factors into a series of projections for the population of the world's regions. This revised and updated version incorporates completely new scenario projections based on updating starting values and revised assumptions, plus several methodological improvements. It also contains the best currently available information on global trends in AIDS mortality and the first ever fully probabilistic world population projections. The projections, given up to 2100, add important additional features to those of the UN and the World Bank: they show the impacts of alternative assumptions for all three components (mortality and migration, as well as fertility); they explicitly take into account possible environmental limits to growth; and, for the first time, they define confidence levels for global populations. Combining methodological innovation with overviews of the most recent data and literature, this updated edition of The Future Population of the World is sure to conform its reputation as the most comprehensive and essential publication in the field.