Progress on Oxford University Press book on World Population and Human Capital in the 21st Century

This will consist of six substantive background chapters that summarize the state of international scientific knowledge as well as the results of an online questionnaire on the various drivers of demographics, and of five international workshops held on five continents. The lead authors of these chapters come from IIASA or other Wittgenstein Centre partners with a large number of contributing authors from around the world. Together, more than 600 population experts have already contributed to this major new population assessment. The five chapters will deal with the drivers of future fertility (in high and low fertility countries), future mortality (in high and low mortality countries), international migration, as well as education progression. After a chapter describing data and methods, the book will also include three chapters that summarize the results, one focusing on the effects of alternative education scenarios, one describing results with respect to expected future population aging, and one on the SSPs described above.

An agreement with OUP was reached in 2012. The book will also contain an extensive tabular appendix showing the main results at the level of individual countries and world regions. Full details of assumptions and results will be given on the IIASA Web site.

Last edited: 03 October 2013