Future of Low Birth-Rate Populations

Prior to his recent retirement Lincoln H. Day was Senior Fellow in Demography at the Australian National University.

`Deserves to be read by anyone interested in the implications of persistent low fertility and consequent deomgraphic ageing.' - Population and Development Review`With its bold ideas about no-growth and negative-growth populations scenarios, the book is bound to stimulate debate.' - Population Today`The book can be confidently recommended to the non-population expert as well as to demographers themselves. [It is] clearly and cogently written... Lincoln Day makes an excellent case that a stable population with more old people could be a more sustainable and harmonious society.' - Australian National University Reporter`... lucid ... should be of substantial interest to scholars in the fields of demography, sociology, gerontology and European studies.' - Choice

• 1 THE DEMOGRAPHIC SITUATION 2 THE FUTURE OF FERTILITY AND MORTALITY 3 THE CHALLENGE OF NUMERICAL DECLINE AND OLDER AGE STRUCTURE: PART 1. FINANCES AND THE PROVISION OF CARE 4 THE CHALLENGE OF NUMERICAL DECLINE AND OLDER AGE STRUCTURE: PART 2. HOUSEHOLDS, LABOR FORCE, ECONOMIC CONDITIONS AND BEHAVIOR 5 POLICY ALTERNATIVES: DEMOGRAPHIC 6 SOME COMPENSATIONS IN THE TREND TOWARD OLDER AGE STRUCTURES AND NUMERICAL DECLINES 7 POLICY ALTERNATIVES: NONDEMOGRAPHIC 8 CONCLUSION