This volume, the first in a new series on population and sustainable development, provides new ways of thinking about population trends in the 21st century. While the 20th century was the century of population growth with the world's population increasing from 1.6 to 6.1 billion, this book shows that the 21st century is likely to see the end of world population growth and become the century of population ageing. At the moment we are at the crossroads of these two different demographic regimes, with some countries still experiencing high population growth while others are already faced with rapid ageing. This book presents a new framework for discovering the underlying unity in this demographic diversity.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
The End of World Population Growth
Applications of Probabilistic Population Forecasting
Future Human Capital: Population Projections by Level of Education
Literate Life Expectancy: Charting the Progress in Human Development
Interactions between Population, Environment, Development and Agriculture in Africa: A Case Study on Ethiopia
Interactions between Education and HIV: Demographic Examples from Botswana
China's Future Urban and Rural Population by Level of Education
Population, Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change
Conceptualizing Population in Sustainable Development: From 'Population Stabilization' to 'Population Balance'
Bibliography