Simple tools for forecasts of population ageing in developed countries based on extrapolations of human mortality, fertility and migration

Experimental Gerontology

Volumn 37, Issue 8-9, 2002, Pages 1131-1136

  Stauffer, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; FERTILITY; FORECASTING; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; TIME;

AGING; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 0036696575     PISSN: 05315565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0531-5565(02)00084-0     Document Type: Article

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