title: Aging and social expenditures in Italy:  some issues associated with population projections.
abstract: "After describing the main results of the recent Italian population projections, and some possible consequences...aging may have on social expenditures, this paper focuses on attempts to improve the accuracy of development assumptions, with special regard to natural components. Emphasis is placed on the importance of applying specific methodological tools to define self-explanatory assumptions for fertility and mortality and to produce projections which could be considered, with reasonable limitations, as real forecasts."
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005298:Fertility; D005376:Financial Management; D005380:Financing, Government; D005544:Forecasting; D007558:Italy; D009026:Mortality; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012106:Research; D012943:Social Security; D012946:Social Welfare; D013223:Statistics as Topic
keywords: Demographic Aging; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Estimation Technics; Europe; Fertility; Financial Activities; Financing, Government; Italy; Mediterranean Countries; Mortality; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Forecast; Population Projection; Research Methodology; Social Security; Social Welfare--cost; Southern Europe