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The transition to modernity of population forecasting, from the first emergence of demographic forecasting in 1895 with Cannan’s forecast of the population of England and Wales and it becoming the new standard method of national population forecasting, took about five decades. To a large degree the new methodology owes its existence to the wish to improve the quality of the debate on the population problem by giving it an objective scientific foundation of the ongoing debates. Only much later it became clear that the new methodology could also be used for decision making purposes.
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De Gans, H.A. (1999). Conclusions. In: Population Forecasting 1895–1945. European Studies of Population, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4766-8_9
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