Doubling of world population unlikely

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6635, 1997, Pages 803-805

  Lutz, Wolfgang ^a   Sanderson, Warren ^b   Scherbov, Sergei ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; FERTILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MIGRATION; POPULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GROWTH; PROBABILITY; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

GLOBAL OVERVIEW; GLOBAL POPULATION; POPULATION PROJECTION; POPULATION TRENDS;

EID: 0030619342     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42935     Document Type: Article

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