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Economic development can lead to substantial changes in the demographic characteristics of a population, and these demographic changes usually have important economic implications. This is true, not only for the so-called developing populations, but also in respect of advanced industrialised populations.
In this paper, techniques previously developed for analysing the effects of mortality change on expectation of life are extended to allow the analysis of changes in certain key demographic and economic indicators. The methods allow concise and ready interpretations of the factors leading to the observed changes. Changes in the net reproduction rate of a population, hospital insurance and pensions are given as examples.
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Pollard, J.H. (1989). Mortality Changes and Their Economic Consequences, with Particular Reference to Cause of Death. In: Wenig, A., Zimmermann, K.F. (eds) Demographic Change and Economic Development. Studies in Contemporary Economics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83789-0_3
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