Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Projections to 2050
  • Projections after 2050: long-range growth and decline
  • Country rankings
  • Population density
  • Ageing populations
  • Towards an understanding of the emotions in the population of 2300 / Alaka Basu
  • An intergenerational rationale for fertility assumptions in long-range world population projections / Herwig Birg
  • The implications of the United Nations long-range population projections / John Caldwell
  • Comparing long-range global population projections with historical experience / Joel Cohen
  • World population in 2300: a century too far? / David Coleman
  • Population futures for the next three hundred years: soft landing or surprises to come? / Paul Demeny
  • Why the world's population will probably be less than 9 billion in 2300 / Timothy Dyson
  • Reflections on the next few centuries / Franc̦ois Héran
  • The future of human life expectancy / S. Jay Olshansky
  • Projecting the unknowable: a professional effort sure to be misinterpreted / Michael Teitelbaum
  • The implications of the United Nations long-range population projections: continuing rapid population growth / Charles F. Westoff
  • Foretelling the future / John R. Wilmoth.