Population and demographics

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  • Older than average population compared to England
  • Growing population particularly those in older age groups
  • Increasing numbers of persons typically not in the labour force aged 65 and over
  • More people moving into Devon compared to moving out of Devon, particularly those aged 30 to 69 years
  • Over 75,000 planned dwellings and 422 hectares of employment land are planned for over the next 15 to 20 years
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Population demographics and genetic diversity in remnant and translocated populations of sea otters
JL Bodkin, BE Ballachey, MA Cronin… – Conservation …, 1999 – Wiley Online Library
The effects of small population size on genetic diversity and subsequent population recovery
are theoretically predicted, but few empirical data are available to describe those relations.
We use data from four remnant and three translocated sea otter (Enhydra lutris) populations …

Changes in population demographics and the future incidence of hip fracture

R Smith, K Duncan, JD Hutchison, D Reid – Injury, 2009 – Elsevier
Background During the first three decades of the 21st century the combination of increasing
life expectancy and falling birth rates will result in substantial demographic changes within
the population of the United Kingdom. A large increase in the elderly population is likely to …

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