Open AccessSome patterns and social impacts of external migration on a below-replacement population: Denmark by the turn of the millennium
Author(s) -
Hans Oluf Hansen,
Paul Maxim
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
finnish yearbook of population research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1796-6191
pISSN - 1796-6183
DOI - 10.23979/fypr.44900
Subject(s) - fertility , naturalization , population , demographic economics , net migration rate , geography , demography , population growth , development economics , total fertility rate , economics , sociology , family planning , research methodology , alien , census
As with many other nations in Europe, Denmark has experienced below-replacement fertility over the past three decades. The impact on population growth of the recent fertility decline to a large extent has been offset by a positive net balance of external migration. To provide a factual basis for a wide range of policy issues and social and cultural impacts we start by studying external migration, differential fertility, naturalization of foreign nationals, and population growth in the framework of multidimensional life models. Migrants and naturalized citizens tend to have reproductive behavior and sex/age profiles that differ significantly from those of the remaining population. To study some concerted demographic and social impacts of such differentials, we construct a number of midterm projections based on existing and expected development of fertility, mortality, and migration.