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World Population Growth and Aging: Demographic Trends in the Late Twentieth Century
Contributor(s): Keyfitz, Nathan (Author), Flieger, Wilhelm (Author)
ISBN: 0226432378     ISBN-13: 9780226432373
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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Product Type: Hardcover
Published: January 1991
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Annotation: This book continues work started at the University of Chicago in the mid-1960's. Like two earlier books of the authors, it assembles data from official sources intended to show the larger outlines of what has been happening to population; the countries with populations of 300,000 or more in 1985 and regions recognized by the United Nations are all represented.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Demography
Dewey: 304.609
LCCN: 90011015
Physical Information: 1.34" H x 8.81" W x 11.31" (3.77 lbs) 616 pages
 
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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.