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Demographic Tables for the Western Pacific 2005-2010
This publication provides national population projections for the years 2005 through 2010 by selected age-sex segments and for selected topics of demographic and health interest. These serve as a denominator datasets for computing health indicators such as Millennium Development Goals, and for other specific programmes of the WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO). Individual countries could also use the data when national data was unavailable.
The projections were based on medium assumptions of fertility as determined by UN tracking system on population dynamics. This uses the UN Population Prospects Revision 2002. However, it also selects the fertility assumption according to the magnitudes of Total Fertility Rate (TFR) relevant to each country to add some realism to the projections and avoid the use of the medium projection as the sole dynamic. Both mortality and international migration also are factored in from the extensive UN demographic database.
WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific
2005,
275 pages
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Price for developing countries: 7.00 US$
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