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Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital

The Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital is a research collaboration between the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, the Vienna Institute of Demography of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and the University of Vienna, both located in Vienna. From 2011 to 2019 the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU) was the centre's university pillar. The centre was founded in 2010 by demographer Wolfgang Lutz who had won the Wittgenstein Award in the same year.

Areas of research
The Wittgenstein Centre applies multidisciplinary research to the analysis of human capital and population dynamics, assessing the effects of these forces on long-term human well-being and focusing on the following research themes: • Human reproductionEducation policy and planning • Migration and education • Health and mortality • Cognitive ageing • Modelling human capital formation • Human capital data lab • Population dynamics and ageing • Differential disaster vulnerability • Economics of ageing and labour markets Recent research results of the centre's scientists, in particular on educational attainment by age and sex in 195 countries but also on trends in fertility, mortality, migration, and educational level for the world's regions are summarized in a 2014 Oxford University Press publication edited by Wolfgang Lutz, William P. Butz and Samir KC: World Population and Human Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The data that this study is based on is freely available by way of the Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer which allows to select and download global population projections broken down by country, region, sex, age, time periods and a number of other indicators (see link below). == References ==
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