Mehr als andere hoch entwickelte Industriestaaten steht Deutschland vor weit reichenden demographischen Herausforderungen. Die Alterspyramide gerät von zwei Seiten her ins Wanken: durch niedrige Geburtenzahlen und steigende Lebenserwartung. So wird es in Deutschland im Jahr 2050 ebenso viele...

The World Economy brings together two reference works by Angus Maddison: The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective, first published in 2001 and The World Economy: Historical Statistics, published in 2003. This new edition contains Statlinks, a service providing access to the underlying data in...

Can China and India continue to rank among the fastest expanding economies? This book highlights what has worked and what more needs to be done to ensure sustained rapid economic growth and poverty reduction. Addressing the two countries' recent experiences with growth and reform, this book...

Following his The World Economy: a Millennial Perspective, Angus Maddison here offers a rare insight into the history and political influence of national accounts and national accounting. He demonstrates that such statistical data can shed light on the analysis of economic phenomena such as...

Die Bevölkerung in Deutschland wird sich in den nächsten Jahrzehnten deutlich verändern. Zwar kommt es aufgrund der starken Zuwanderung auf absehbare Zeit nicht zu einer Schrumpfung, doch wird die Alterung erhebliche Auswirkungen haben. In wenigen Jahren werden die geburtenstarken Jahrgänge...

This report, part of the “Cities” collection, provides an analysis of the demographic and morphological changes in West African border cities since the mid-20th century. Using the Africapolis harmonised database makes it possible to show that since 1950 border cities have experienced higher...

The OECD's Business Demography database contains information on variables such as birth rates (business entries), death rates (business exits) survival rates, or High-Growth enterprises rate for most OECD countries. Indicators are broken down by industry using the International Standard of...

The OECD's Business Demography database contains information on variables such as birth rates (business entries), death rates (business exits) survival rates, or High-Growth enterprises rate for most OECD countries. Indicators are broken down by industry using the International Standard of...