"The medium variant of the new Netherlands population forecasts for the period 1998-2050 projects that population size will increase to a maximum of 17.4 million around 2035.... In the new population forecasts population growth is higher due to higher numbers of births and lower numbers of deaths. Even though net migration will be lower than in the previous forecasts, this will only partly offset the higher natural growth. The main cause of the higher projection of population growth is that the new forecasts are based on assumptions about emigration rates, distinguished by age, sex and country of birth, rather than on absolute numbers of emigrants." (EXCERPT)
"Projections of the future number of asylum seekers [in the Netherlands] are very uncertain. This article examines how the number of asylum seekers can be projected. A distinction is made between projections for the short and for the long term.... This article introduces a model based on the assumption that there are two types of policy reaction to changes in the number of asylum seekers. On the one hand, if the number of asylum seekers is increasing policies tend to become more strict in order to reduce the number of new asylum seekers. On the other hand the capacity to house asylum seekers is expanded." (EXCERPT)
The author examines the extent and characteristics of mixed marriages in the Netherlands. "Nine out of ten married persons born in Turkey or Morocco have a partner who was born in the same country. The majority of married Surinamese also have a partner originating from the same country. Those who spend (a part of) their youth in Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies), on the other hand, are mostly married to someone born in the Netherlands." (EXCERPT)
Demographic trends in the Netherlands in 1994 are examined. Information is included on population size and growth, immigration, nationality, fertility, mortality, marriage, and divorce. (SUMMARY IN ENG)
