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

One aspect of Pew Research Center’s work is population projections, which represent our best assessment about the growth and composition of the future population, either in the U.S. or elsewhere.

White Americans' majority to end by mid-century: The estimated time when whites will no longer make up the majority of Americans has been pushed back eight years -- to 2050 -- because the recession ...

The U.S. Census Bureau makes projections of the U.S. population based on various immigration scenarios. Currently, it publishes four scenarios representing a high, low, medium (“main”), and ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology), Vol. 70, No. 2 (2008), pp. 311-328 (18 pages) In many situations information from a sample of individuals can be ...

The United Nations just released updated population projection figures, and it looks like our world is going to get more crowded. The UN estimates that the current world population is about 7.3 ...

Older people will outnumber children for the first time in U.S. history by 2035, according to new projections by the Census Bureau. Aging baby boomers are one of the main drivers of this trend. A new ...