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The area under the curve is given by population forecasts.

Growth is also expected in larger cities, with Chicago's downtown population forecast to increase by a third, to 152,000.

What happens if the population forecasts are wrong?

These population forecasts are just scare stories.

Although this year's population forecasts are encouraging bordering on euphoric, the picture over the past decade or more has been one of steady decline.

The study's population forecast for 2025 predicted that Arabs would comprise only 25% of the Israeli population.

The bureau, which has been doing long-range population forecasts since the early 1950's, has consistently been highly accurate.

The low population forecasts assume decreasing rates of natural growth - that is, births over deaths - in each group and high rates of emigration.

The policy was amended in late 2008 to become Melbourne @ Five Million in response to increased population forecasts and an increased demand for housing.

World Bank optimism for Indonesia contrasts starkly with the World Health Organization's bleak population forecast.

By 2021, the town's total population forecast is projected to be approximately 55,800 persons, with an estimated 41,000 persons residing within the Community of Stouffville proper.

The GTHA is Canada's largest and fastest growing urban region, with a population forecast to grow by 2.6 million people by 2031.

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In the late 1980s the district embarked on an analysis of long term forecasting including district population forecasts, employer surveys, economic development within the district and household formations.

This would be in line with its alternative low population forecast, and some four billion people fewer than its high projection, which sees world population reaching 12.5 billion in 2050 and 20.7 billion a century later.

But most of the population forecasts from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys suggests probably going to about fifty eight million by the early twenty-first century or the turn of the century, but the structure will be different.

The need for flexibility in plan making was stressed; something more than land use maps were required and they had to be more responsive to the rapid changes then being experienced in the 1960s in terms of economic and social trends, population forecasts and traffic growth.

Current population forecasts for the region predict that it will grow by 2 million people by 2035 due to both the natural birth rate and job creation, and estimate that 50% of this growth can be accommodated in Priority Development Areas through transit-oriented development.

In an evaluation of Armstrong and other authors' criticism of polar bear population forecasts, Amstrup and other authors, writing a response in the journal Interfaces, concluded that all of the claims made by Armstrong, which included lack of independence of the USGS, were either mistaken or misleading.