ABSTRACT
Stable population theory has many applications. This chapter describes and illustrates two important sets of such applications. The first set concerns what might be called ‘quasi-demographic entities’. These are collections of individual items, or people, about which, at first sight, demography might not seem to have much to say, but which, on closer inspection, are found to have similar dynamics to human populations. In other words, their form is fundamentally similar to that of the stable population, and therefore stable population theory may be used to analyse them. The second set of applications of stable population theory involves making estimates of the demographic characteristics of populations for which data are lacking, or of poor quality.
