We used world population data from the United Nations to create this population pyramid of Norway from 1950 projected to 2100. Our key takeaways? This animation visualizes the “demographic transition” predicted to occur this century. Demographic transition is the shift from high fertility & mortality to low fertility & mortality. That is: people will live longer …
Ivan Puga-Gonzalez, Rachel J. Bacon, David Voas, F. LeRon Shults, George Hodulik, Wesley J. Wildman Abstract Social scientists generally take United Nations (UN) population projections as the baseline when considering the potential impact of any changes that could affect fertility, mortality or migration, and the UN typically does projections using the cohort-component method (CCM). The CCM technique is computationally simple …
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