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Planning for Contracting/Aging Populations: Societal and Economic Ramifications

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Many countries worldwide have below a population replacement birth rate (2.01) and/or an aging population. This has resulted in contracting populations with the degree of contraction varying between countries but resulting in similar predictable societal, economic, and to some degree political problems. Examples of countries with contracting populations are shown in Table 9.1.

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Siegel, F.R. (2019). Planning for Contracting/Aging Populations: Societal and Economic Ramifications. In: Cities and Mega-Cities. SpringerBriefs in Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93166-1_9

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