The phrase "demographic forecasts" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing predictions or estimates related to population characteristics, such as age, gender, income, or education levels.
Example: "The demographic forecasts indicate a significant increase in the elderly population over the next decade."
Alternatives: "population projections" or "population estimates."
Just as useful are demographic forecasts.
If the baby-boomers all try to sell at the same time, and there are fewer buyers, then house prices could slide.However, using demographic forecasts to predict house prices is a dangerous game.
Despite their great societal relevance, the recent track record of demographic forecasts is not praiseworthy.
So even if millennials age out of shared housing, demographic forecasts indicate there will plenty of twenty-somethings to rent those partitioned-off rooms.
This is a serious problem because of demographic forecasts about the capacity of some countries to ensure future labour supply and maintain present economic growth.
Even though longer time series became available as well as presumably better methodology and more computing power were on-hand, Keilman (2008) concluded for European countries that "Demographic Forecasts Have Not Become More Accurate Over the Past 25 Years".
Upfront capital costs and botched demographic forecasting dented the projected returns of the desalination plants.
If this plan is supposed to be an alternative to boats in the Mediterranean, it fails.Growing old disgracefullyWith delicious timing this week the commission also published a sobering demographic forecast.
Low cost mobile communications, used by people trained with basic diagnostic skills and linked to health information systems, could benefit vast numbers of people; and centralised patient registers and data gathering for demographic forecasting and planning, for healthcare purposes and for public health frameworks, hold enormous potential.
The demographic forecast predicts an aging population in all developed countries, and this will lead to an increase of frailty in the elderly.
How subjective information and expert judgment can be differentiated in (demographic) forecasting is discussed, for example, in general in Armstrong (2001) and more specifically in Billari et al. (2014a).
