Carolina QuotesOrtmans et al. Turchin P. 2010 conducted a similar structural-demographic study for the United Kingdom.
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Abstract. Ref: O Ortmans, E Mazzeo, K Meshcherina, A Korotayev "Modeling Social Pressures Toward Political Instability in the United Kingdom after 1960: A Demographic Structural Analysis" Cliodynamics (2017) 8:113–58
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- The 2010 structural-demographic forecast for the 2010–2020 decade (Aug 17, 2020)
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- 1960
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