Demographics: References

The data for this module comes from:

The US Census International Database, http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/idbconf.html.
The Status and Trends of the HIV/AIDS/STD Epidemics in the World, http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/hivdurbn.html.

You can generate pyramids for most countries in the world, using professional demographers' rates, at:

A good background discussion of age-structured population growth is in Gotelli. The Details file takes precedence over methods described in Gotelli.

Ginger Booth, revised March 2005, orig. December 2000, for oswald.schmitz@yale.edu