Researchers are projecting the world’s population to peak with more than 10.13 billion people on Earth, before the population begins to drop.

Cohort-Component Model: A demographic projection method that decomposes population changes into components such as fertility, mortality and migration to predict future population structures.

The standard demographic approach to population projections is called the cohort-component method. It accounts for the age and sex structure of a population (the “cohorts”) and then carries this ...

BACKGROUND Population projections using the cohort component method can be written as time-varying matrix population models. The matrices are parameterized by schedules of mortality, fertility, ...

It is shown that, within the framework of generalized linear models, the population level information corresponds to linear constraints, which are comparatively easy to handle. We provide a two-step ...

The US population is projected to peak later this century and then start declining, according to a new analysis by the US Census Bureau. It’s the first time Census projections have forecast a ...

The projections released Thursday say the county’s population will continue to rise this decade and next, but only by about half the rate seen in the past decade.

The Congressional Budget Office has shrunk its projections for the U.S. population in 30 years to 372 million residents, a 2.8% drop from last year, citing declining birth rates and less expected ...