Craig J
Popul Trends. 1997 Summer(88):5-12.
Previous population reviews--published as the 1977 and 1984 Demographic Reviews--were published as free-standing reports. This Review has appeared, initially, as a series of eight articles in this journal. The aim (to quote from the introduction in Population Trends 81) has been to: 'describe the changing make-up of the population of the United Kingdom in a form that will be useful to both general readers and to demography specialists'. The articles have shown that since the 1984 review was issued the demographic picture has become clearer-and now looks a little different. This concluding article brings together the key changes since the last Review and summarises the current situation.
以往的人口综述——分别作为1977年和1984年的《人口统计学评论》出版——是以独立报告的形式发布的。本综述最初是以本期刊上的一系列八篇文章的形式出现的。其目的（引用《人口趋势》81期引言中的话）是：“以一种对普通读者和人口统计学专家都有用的形式，描述英国人口构成的变化”。这些文章表明，自1984年的综述发布以来，人口状况变得更加清晰——而且现在看起来略有不同。这篇总结性文章汇集了自上次综述以来的主要变化，并概述了当前形势。
