Ageing in Advanced Industrial States Riding the Age Waves - Volume 3 /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tuljapurkar, Shripad (Editor), Ogawa, Naohiro (Editor), Gauthier, Anne H. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: International Studies in Population ; 8
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Geriatrics.; Economic policy.; Population.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Economic Policy.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.; Population Economics.

Population growth slowed across the world in the last decades of the 20th century, changing substantially our view of the future. The 21st century is likely to see the end to world population growth and become the century of population aging, marked by low fertility and ever-increasing life expectan...