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Mapping global urban and rural population distributions: Estimates of future global population distribution to 2015
Author(s):

Deborah Balk, Melanie Brickman, Bridget Anderson, Francesca Pozzi, Greg Yetman

Organisation: FAO and The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York

There is considerable interest in the future distribution of human population. In the near term, however, there are no formal demographic forecasts of population that are spatially explicit. This exercise is a stop–gap measure to address a short-term scenario: If the current rates of population growth, as observed in the decade prior to 2000, continue for 15 years, what would the distribution of population look like in the year 2015?

Sector:
Topic: Poverty
Method: Mapping
Type: Other publication
Tags: Mapping, Population, Urban, Rural
Date published: 2005
Language(s): English
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