1996 Population Projections
Global Population Projections by 13 World Regions

The 1996 world population projection uses expert-based assumptions for the future development of fertility, mortality, life expectancy and migration. For the projection, the globe was divided into 13 major world regions. By doing so, much of the world heterogeneity is taken into account, and we need not bother with national particularities, especially with respect to migration.

The crucial difference with respect to existing global population projections lies in the specification, justification, and combination of alternative scenario assumptions and in the definition of the first probabilistic world population projections.

Detailed information on the assumptions, summaries of results and a description of the methodology as well as data sets are provided by the IIASA Population Program, are at www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/POP/docs/Population_Projections_
Results.html.

Lutz, Wolfgang (Ed.). 1996.
The Future Population of the World: What Can We Assume Today?
Revised and Updated Edition.
London: Earthscan, 500 pp.

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