We created an interactive tool that lets you test how changes in fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates will change future populations.
How will populations change in the future? Demographers model their scenarios using assumptions about key demographic changes, most notably fertility rates, life expectancy, and migration rates…
Source: Our World in Data is a project of Global Change Data Lab
Our World In Data
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