Edited by Wolfgang Lutz, Founding Director, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ ÖAW, WU), William P. Butz, Senior Research Scholar; ; Director of Communications and Outreach, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, and Samir KC, Project Leader, Wittgenstein Centre

Wolfgang Lutz is Founding Director of the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, a new collaboration between the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the WU-Vienna University of Economics and Business. He is director of the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Applied Statistics at the WU. He is also Professorial Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School for 21st Century Studies. He is author of the series of world population projections produced at IIASA and has developed approaches for projecting education and human capital. He is also principal investigator of the Asian MetaCentre for Population and Sustainable Development Analysis. Lutz is author and editor of 28 books and more than 200 refereed articles, including 8 in Science and Nature. In 2008 he received an ERC Advanced Grant, in 2009 the Mattei Dogan Award of the IUSSP, and in 2010 the Wittgenstein Prize.

William P. Butz is a Senior Research Scholar with the World Population Program and Director of Coordination and Outreach at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital. Previously he was president and chief executive officer of the Population Reference Bureau. Before joining PRB, he was senior economist at the RAND Corporation; associate director of the US Census Bureau, where he was in charge of household surveys, international activities, and population estimates and projections, and division director for social and behavioral sciences at the National Science Foundation. Mr Butz has taught economic development at UCLA and the University of California at Santa Barbara, served on numerous commissions and boards, and written more than 80 research and policy papers on a variety of topics related to economic demography, nutrition and health, and statistical and science policy. Since 2001, he has served on the Board of Reviewing Editors of Science magazine.

Samir KC is Leader of the project 'Modelling Human Capital Formation' at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. KC's master's degree in statistics is from Tribhuvan University, Nepal (1997). Subsequently, he taught university statistics in Kathmandu and worked as a biostatistician at the Nepal Health Research Council. KC received his PhD from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (2009) and has worked as a Research Scholar at the World Population Program at IIASA since 2005. His major research interests are: developing and applying multi-state population models in demographic analysis and projections with a particular focus on modeling human capital formation in education and health; and differential vulnerability to natural disasters. KC has published in Science magazine (2011) and other peer-reviewed journals.

Guy Abel, Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna Institute of Demography
Bilal Barakat, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Stuart Basten, University of Oxford
Ramon Bauer, Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna Institute of Demography
William P. Butz, Wittgenstein Centre
Graziella Caselli, University of Rome
Sven Drefahl, Stockholm University and Karolinska Institute
Rachel Durham, Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Regina Fuchs, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Alessandra Garbero, International Fund for Agricultural Development
Anne Goujon, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Samir KC, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Wolfgang Lutz, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital
Marc Luy, Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna Institute of Demography
Elsie Pamuk, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Michaela Potancková, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Fernando Riosmena, University of Colorado at Boulder
Nikola Sander, Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna Institute of Demography
Warren Sanderson, Stony Brook University, New York and Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Sergei Scherbov, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Vegard Skirbekk, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Tomas Sobotka, Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna Institute of Demography
Erich Striessnig, Wittgenstein Centre, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Christian Wegner-Siegmundt, Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna Institute of Demography
Krystof Zeman, Wittgenstein Centre, Vienna Institute of Demography

"provides an excellent summary of the state of the discipline, as it concerns itself with the determinants of fertility, mortality, migration, the changing population composition by education, and the meaning of age." - Roderic Beaujot, University of Western Ontario, Canadian Studies in Population

"projections of the educational composition of adult populations is the major achievement of this book. Opinions will vary on whether education should be routinely added to demographic projections but there is no doubting that this contribution of Lutz and colleagues will prove useful in education and manpower planning." - John Cleland, Population Studies

"This is a path-breaking book which signals the ever-increasing importance of education to demography, economics and the delivery of equal opportunities and fair outcomes." - The Rt Hon Gordon Brown MP, UN Special Envoy for Global Education

"This monumental, pioneering volume proselytizes for a new trinity of fundamentals of demography: age, sex, and education. If this book succeeds in its mission, as I hope it will, the future will look different, not only for the science of demography, but also for all people's lives." - Professor Joel E. Cohen, The Rockefeller University and Columbia University, New York

"This is a valuable guide to data, analysis, and expert opinion bearing on the world's demographic future. Particularly instructive is the consistent focus on the transformative role of educational progress." - Professor Samuel H. Preston, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

"This book on human numbers and the quality of lives will deservedly become our first port of call whenever we seek to understand our past and our possible futures. It is simply a monumental piece of work." - Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom