United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Population Division

Catalogue of Population Division
Publications, Databases and Software


Reports on world population trends and policies and on population estimates and projections

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World Population Prospects: The 1998 Revision

Available in English only.

Presents the results of the 1998 Revision of the global population estimates and projections for the world, the more developed and the less developed regions, six major areas, 20 regions and 228 countries and areas for the 100-year period between 1950 and 2050. For the period 1995-2050, four variants of projections were prepared: the high-, medium-, low- and constant-fertility variants.

Volume I: Comprehensive Tables.
(ST/ESA/SER.A/177) 640 pages. $75.00
Sales No. E.99.XIII.9

Volume II: The Sex and Age Distribution of the World Populations.
(ST/ESA/SER.A/180) 896 pages. $90.00
Sales No. E.99.XIII.8

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World Population Monitoring 1998 Health and Mortality: Selected Aspects
(forthcoming)

Available in English only.

Provides recent information on selected aspects of health and mortality and covers such topics as: primary health care and the health care sector; levels and trends of mortality; child survival and health; women's health and safe motherhood; human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS); the epidemiological transition; health and mortality policies; and health and development.

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Health and Mortality: A Concise Report
(ST/ESA/SER.A/172z) 46 pp.
Sales No. E.99.XIII.2

Available in English only.

Provides a concise summary of the World Population Monitoring 1998: Health and Mortality: Selected Aspects

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World Population Monitoring 1997
Issues of International Migration and Development
(ST/ESA/SER.A/169) 204 pp. $45.00.
Sales No. E.98.XIII.4.

Available in English only

Reviews selected aspects of international migration and development. Chapter I examines international migration issues in the three major United Nations meetings and conferences dealing with population. Chapter II discusses the relationship between international migration and population dynamics. Chapter III examines Governments' views on international migration and how these views have changed over time. Chapters IV, V and VI review specific issues related to respectively, documented migrants, undocumented migrants and refugees and asylum-seekers. Chapter VII considers international labour migration. International migration and gender issues is discussed in chapter VIII. And finally, chapter IX discusses the complex interrelationships between international migration and development.

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International Migration and Development
The Concise Report.
(ST/ESA/SER.A/164). 63 pp. $7.50.
Sales No. E.97.XIII.4

Available in English, French and Spanish

Provides a concise summary of the World Population Monitoring 1997: Issues of International Migration and Development.

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World Population Projections to 2150
(ST/ESA/SER.A/173) 41 pp. $15.00.
Sales No. E.98.XIII.14.

Available in English only.

Contains population by age and sex, total population and selected demographic indicators. Data are presented, quinquennially, for the years 1950-2150. Data for the period 1950-1995 are United Nations demographic estimates; data for the period 1995-2150 are from a long-range projection that is fully consistent with results for 1995-2050 from World Population Prospects: The 1996 Revision.

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World Population Prospects: The 1996 Revision
(ST/ESA/SER.A/167) 839 pp. $ 95.00.
Sales No. E.98.XIII.5.

Available in English only

Presents the results of the 1996 Revision of the global population estimates and projections for the world, the more developed ant the less developed regions, six major areas, 20 regions and 228 countries and areas for the 100-year period between 1950 and 2050. For the period 1995-2050, four variants of projections were prepared: the high-, medium-, low- and constant-fertility variants.

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Catalogue of Population Division Publications, Databases and Software

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