Rodrigo Wagner's column: “Demographic projections: companies and government need nowcasting” - La Tercera

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Rodrigo Wagner's column: “Demographic projections: companies and government need nowcasting” - La Tercera

For the economy and business, population statistics were not as common news, because in general population flows were moving slowly and predictably. Our statistical institutionality was also adapted to these slower changes. In Chile, we measure Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and inflation every month, but we forecast population changes much more separately, at least in official sources. But today things have changed because migration and birth flo…