This section provides access to PowerPoint presentations given at conferences and workshops by staff members of the Population Estimates and Projections Section. The presentations cover a broad range of substantial and methodological questions related to the World Population Prospects and the World Urbanization Prospects.

The views expressed in these presentations are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations. The presentation’s content has not been formally edited and cleared by the United Nations. The designations employed and the presentation of material in this presentation do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

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Child mortality estimation: A global overview of infant and child mortality age patterns.
Presentation by Michel Guillot, Patrick Gerland, François Pelletier and Ameed Saabneh at the Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (IGME) Technical Advisory Group meeting on 25 June 2012, New York, NY.

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World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision
Presentation by Gerhard Heilig at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
7 June 2012, Washington, DC.

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Strategic Implications of Demographic Change in Asia. Analysis based on the 2010 Revision of the World Population Prospects.
Presentation by Gerhard Heilig at the conference on "Demographic Decline in Asia and the Future Regional Security". 24-25 May 2012, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, RI

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World Population Prospects: How to take account of uncertainty.

Presentations at the Breakfast Seminar of the Population Division at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America (PAA), 2-6 May 2012, San Francisco, CA

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Probabilistic Projections of the Total Fertility Rate for All Countries: an introduction to the new 2010 UN fertility projection model.
Presentation by Leontine Alkema, Adrian Raftery, Patrick Gerland, Sam Clark, Francois Pelletier, Thomas Buettner, and Gerhard Heilig at the International seminar on Population Estimates and Projections: methodologies, innovations and estimation of target population applied to public policies (Session 1: Innovations in the Population Projections at the UN Population Division: Methods, advances and challenges) organized by the Latin American Population Association (ALAP) - Research Network on Population Estimates and Projections, and the National School of Statistics (ENCE) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 9 -11 November 2011).

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Lessons learned and applications of the 2010 UN fertility projection methodology.
Presentation by Patrick Gerland at the International seminar on Population Estimates and Projections: methodologies, innovations and estimation of target population applied to public policies (Session 1: Innovations in the Population Projections at the UN Population Division: Methods, advances and challenges) organized by the Latin American Population Association (ALAP) - Research Network on Population Estimates and Projections, and the National School of Statistics (ENCE) of the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 9 -11 November 2011).

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Issues, challenges and findings in reconstructing mortality patterns by age and sex for five South-Asian countries since 1950: India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Maldives.
Presentation by Patrick Gerland at the Center for Global Health Research (CGHR) on 16 September 2011 in Toronto (Canada).

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The preparation of the World Population Prospects - including the probabilistic projections of fertility
Presentation by Gerhard Heilig prepared for the release of the 2010 Revision of the World Population Prospects, 3 May 2011. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division

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Projecting fertility: A history
Presentation by Hania Zlotnik at the United Nations population Division, Expert Group Meeting on Recent and Future Trends in Fertility, New York, 2-4 December 2009

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Comparison between Bayesian approach and World Population Prospects 2008 projections of total fertility.
Presentation by Patrick Gerland at the United Nations population Division, Expert Group Meeting on Recent and Future Trends in Fertility, New York, 2-4 December 2009

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DemoData - An empirical demographic database.
Presentation by Gerhard Heilig at an internal seminar of the United Nations population Division, New York, 2008