The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels … - Nicholas Eberstadt

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The basic trouble with all long-range population projections is that they are driven by assumptions about birth levels - and there is still no reliable method for predicting fertility levels a generation from now, to say nothing of a century hence.

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