World Population Growth and Aging - 9780226432373

The University of Chicago Press

World Population Growth and AgingDemographic Trends in the Late Twentieth Century\nAuthor(s): Nathan Keyfitz, Wilhelm Flieger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226432373, 978-0226432373\nSynopsis\nDrawing 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 [tel], with virtually no overlap. \n\nAll 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 demograph.