The phrase "a projected shortage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing anticipated or forecasted deficiencies in supply or resources.
Example: "According to the latest report, there is a projected shortage of skilled workers in the tech industry over the next five years."
Alternatives: "an anticipated shortage" or "a forecasted shortage."
But the state is struggling to attract and retain teachers and is facing a projected shortage of perhaps 300,000.
It is a projected shortage that is casting a shadow over American health care: a decade from now, exploding demand for registered nurses to care for America's graying population could outstrip supply.
Emma Reynolds said the towns would be built in those areas of greatest need in a bid to tackle a projected shortage of a million homes by 2022, which experts say would force many young people to live with their parents well into their 30s.
He went on: "Late in the 1980s we had a projected shortage of scientists and engineers.
The prospect of aging baby boomers crowding cemeteries as they once packed college campuses reinforces concerns about a projected shortage of burial space in many urban cemeteries.
The recent resurgence of interest in three-year medical school curricula has been driven by a projected shortage of 46,000 to 90,000 physicians by 2025 and by mounting medical student debt.
EVEN as leading scientists warn that America's educational system is failing to produce scientists fast enough to fill a glaring projected shortage, many young physicists contend that universities are already turning out far more physicists than there are permanent jobs.
The same reports [ 10, 14] indicated a serious projected shortage of senior medical staff in the years to come.
Meanwhile, analysts project that the shortage of registered nurses in the United States (US) could reach as high as 500 000 by 2025 [ 5], with a projected deficit of 200 000 physicians by 2020 [ 6].
If the projected shortage of four million barrels a day is not significantly reduced, then prices could rise to $30 or more per barrel, many oil analysts say.
The projected shortage of general surgeons is owing to an increased demand for surgical services and a declining pool of practicing general surgeons.
