The DHS Program

T.J.
ASIAN BANYAN BLOG
THE ECONOMIST

...To account for the decade-long stagnation in the rate of fertility decline, in 2004 the UNFPA raised its 2050 population estimate by 25 million to 243 million. Bangladesh's most recent Demographic and Health Survey calls this "unduly pessimistic" (the government puts its estimate of the 2050 population at 218 million). Indeed, many demographers shared the government's criticism and believe that the UN's projection (243 million in 2050) was simply too high because it chose to project from 1991 census data instead of the latest data, from 2001...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2011/03/bangladeshs_census

T.J.
ASIAN BANYAN BLOG
THE ECONOMIST

...To account for the decade-long stagnation in the rate of fertility decline, in 2004 the UNFPA raised its 2050 population estimate by 25 million to 243 million. Bangladesh's most recent Demographic and Health Survey calls this "unduly pessimistic" (the government puts its estimate of the 2050 population at 218 million). Indeed, many demographers shared the government's criticism and believe that the UN's projection (243 million in 2050) was simply too high because it chose to project from 1991 census data instead of the latest data, from 2001...