Population age structure changes on the scale of education

Abstract

As China's economic and social development and the implementation of family planning policy, China's population age structure will inevitably change, while there is a growing emphasis on education, educational demands are growing rapidly, so the scale of demographic changes have a direct impact on education. This paper forecast the changes of age structure in China's future population with Markov chain, to analyze the impact of change on the education scale. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.