Doubling of world population unlikely
@article{Lutz1997DoublingOW, title={Doubling of world population unlikely}, author={Wolfgang Lutz and Warren C. Sanderson and Sergei Scherbov}, journal={Nature}, year={1997}, volume={387}, pages={803-805} }
Most national and international agencies producing population projections avoid addressing explicitly the issue of uncertainty. Typically, they provide either a single projection or a set of low, medium and high variants,, and only very rarely do they give these projections a probabilistic interpretation. Probabilistic population projections have been developed for specific industrialized countries, mostly the United States, and are based largely on time-series analysis. On a global level, time…
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