Introduction | Broadening demographic horizons: demographic studies beyond age and gender | Demographic Debate | Are there principles of demography? A search for unifying (and hegemonic) themes | Can Taylor’s law of fluctuation scaling and its relatives help demographers select more plausible multi-regional population forecasts? | Probabilistic demographic forecasts | Education and demography: a review of world population and human capital in the 21st century | Research Articles | Population dynamics and human capital in Muslim countries | Survival inequalities and redistribution in the Italian pension system | Does education matter? – economic dependency ratios by education | Multistate projections of Australia’s Indigenous population: interacting area group and identification status change | The end of population aging in high-income countries | From intentions to births: paths of realisation in a multi-dimensional life course | Towards causal forecasting of international migration | Data &amp; Trends | Summary of ‘Demographic and human capital scenarios for the 21st century: 2018 assessment for 201 countries’ | “Express transitioning” as a special case of the demographic transition

The 2018 issue of the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, “Broadening demographic horizons”, presents a selected set of papers that move beyond the traditional focus on age and sex structures of the population. It covers concepts and developments related to multi-regional, multi-state and probabilistic population projections; population projections by education and labour force status; and causal models of migration. The articles discuss the complexity of the demographic transition and its links with educational transition and urbanisation processes, and the need for a multidimensional context when analysing the relationship between fertility intentions and outcomes. The issue aims to further broaden the understanding of the consequences of demographic change by discussing differences in life expectancy and economic activity in the light of pension reforms and projected economic dependency ratios. 

Broadening demographic horizons

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Authors for this volume | Introduction | Introduction | Refereed Articles | A unifying framework for the study of population aging | Towards a reconceptualising of population ageing in emerging markets | Population ageing dynamics in the North Atlantic region of the Arctic | Certain characteristics of population ageing using a prospective approach: Serbia as a case study | The impact of physical health on the postponement of retirement | Adjusting prospective old-age thresholds by health status: empirical findings and implications. A case study of Italy | Measuring dependency ratios using National Transfer Accounts | Subjective survival expectations and observed survival: How consistent are they? | Time-to-death patterns in markers of age and dependency | A cross-national comparison of 12 biomarkers finds no universal biomarkers of aging among individuals aged 60 and older

The Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2016 approaches population ageing from a more nuanced perspective, emphasising health, life expectancy and behavioural patterns rather than chronological age. It explores innovative measures such as prospective age, which reflects remaining life expectancy, and thanatological age, which is based on years left to live. Contributions analyse ageing in different contexts, from Arctic regions to emerging economies, taking into account health, economic activity and subjective survival expectations. This approach provides a holistic and dynamic perspective on how ageing varies according to health, activity levels and cultural factors, and offers new insights into policy and societal implications. 

 

Population ageing

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