Meeting the sustainable development goals leads to lower world population growth

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 50, 2016, Pages 14294-14299

  Abel, Guy J ^a,b   Barakat, Bilal ^a   Kc, Samir ^a,b   Lutz, Wolfgang ^b  

^a SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Female education; Reproductive health; Scenarios; Sustainable development goals; World population

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION PROJECTION; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNITED NATIONS; EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HEALTH PROMOTION; MALE; MIGRATION; MOTIVATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SOCIAL CHANGE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EDUCATION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GOALS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; SOCIAL CHANGE; UNITED NATIONS;

EID: 85006165391     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1611386113     Document Type: Article

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