Wednesday, June 6, 2012

What is on a Demographer’s Mind?

A worldwide survey conducted among IUSSP members (970 demographers) shows what is on Demographers’ Minds. A nice paper (via)!

And the prize for 'the most important population issue' goes to 'Population Aging'!  'Urbanization' got the second place, except in Europe (Figure 2).

Figure 2: What do demographers think are the most important problems in their country of residence? Percentages of demographers who think a problem is very important
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