Statisticians have developed what is believed to be the first model for factoring in the uncertainties of migration in population projections.

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 ...

Projection methods for integrating population variables into development planning. Module One: Conceptual issues and methods for preparing demographic projections.

I think this shows the weakness of the methods here, Africa's population is increasing a great deal, so it is likely that its contribution to the stream of immigration will increase in the future, ...

Microsimulation differs from traditional macrosimulation in using a sample rather than the total population, in operating at the level of individual data rather than aggregated data, and in being ...

Gerald G. Marten, A Regression Method for Mark-Recapture Estimation of Population Size with Unequal Catchability, Ecology, Vol. 51, No. 2 (Mar., 1970), pp. 291-295 ...

The UN estimates that the current world population is about 7.3 billion. Based on their main middle fertility projections, the UN expects that we will hit 8.3 billion — one billion more people ...