Bücher der Reihe Demographic Research Monographs

This book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. Leading experts in demography critically examine the existence of the tempo effect in mortality, present extensions and applications, and compare period and cohort longevity measures.

In contrast to previous assertions about a ceiling on the human lifespan, evidence presented in this book suggests that lifespan records in specific countries and globally will be broken again and again as more people survive to become supercentenarians.

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe.

They will also see applications of sensitivity analysis to population growth rates, stable population structures, reproductive value, equilibria under immigration and nonlinearity, and population cycles.

This open access book describes methods of mortality forecasting and discusses possible improvements. The different parts of the book provide discussions of current practice, probabilistic forecasting, the linearity in the increase of life expectancy, causes of death, and the role of cohort factors.

As demonstrated in this book, some demographic techniques can also be seen as theoretical models, and some substantive/behavioral models, commonly rejected as theory because of inconsistent observations, are now seen as valuable theoretical models, for example demographic transition theory.

This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This open access book provides an overview of childlessness throughout Europe.

This book examines whether demographic change, and the challenges that will likely come along with it, will constrain Germany's military capacity. It offers an insight into the interaction between demographic trends and international security.

Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? The sixteen chapters of this book discuss age validation of exceptional longevity, data on supercentenarians in a series of countries, structure and contents of the IDL, and statistical analysis of human mortality after age 110.

The new edition of this classic book collects the founding works of mathematical demography from Roman times to the late Twentieth Century, updates commentaries by the editors and illustrates the deep roots and continuing vitality of mathematical demography.

With unwonted precision, this volume reassesses the demographic impacts on the Ukraine of the 1933 famine precipitated by Stalin's agrarian policies as well as the traumas of the Second World War and the negative trends in life expectancy since the 1960s.

This book examines patterns of regional mortality in Germany, focusing on small-area differentials, and their changes over time. The authors show that the interplay of individual- and regional-level mortality risk factors requires a multidimensional approach.

The theoretical results in this monograph indicate that life provides alternative strategies to aging. The central insight of this monograph is: to deeply understand why some species age it is necessary to understand why other species do not.

Seasonal fluctuations in mortality are a persistent phenomenon, but variations from culture to culture pose fascinating questions. This book investigates whether sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors play a role as important for seasonal mortality as they do for mortality in general.

Inverse Projection is a method for estimating accurate demographic indicators of a population where vital registration data are available, but population censuses are lacking or unreliable.

Tommy Bengtsson Population ageing, the shift in age distribution towards older ages, is of immense global concern. While population ageing has been going on for some time in the developed world, and will continue to do so, most of the change is yet to come for the developing world.

This book reviews the debate on how best to measure period longevity. Leading experts in demography critically examine the existence of the tempo effect in mortality, present extensions and applications, and compare period and cohort longevity measures.

Tommy Bengtsson Population ageing, the shift in age distribution towards older ages, is of immense global concern. While population ageing has been going on for some time in the developed world, and will continue to do so, most of the change is yet to come for the developing world.

This book examines fertility patterns of post-war labor migrants and their descendants in Germany. It includes an introduction to the post-war migration history of Germany and reviews the literature on fertility of migrants and cultural sub-groups.

Does human mortality after age 110 continue to rise, level off, or start to decline? The sixteen chapters of this book discuss age validation of exceptional longevity, data on supercentenarians in a series of countries, structure and contents of the IDL, and statistical analysis of human mortality after age 110.

This stimulating, carefully-researched book on The Late Life Legacy of Very Early Life by Dr. Gabriele Doblhammer is the second volume of a new series of Demographic Research Monographs published by Springer Verlag. The series of Demographic Research Monographs is under the editorial supervision of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research.

Inverse Projection is a method for estimating accurate demographic indicators of a population where vital registration data are available, but population censuses are lacking or unreliable.