Lincoln Day assesses the demographic situation, the likely policy alternatives, the significance of future changes in fertility and mortality rates and analyses the likely losses and gains attendant upon an ageing, dwindling people.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

`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