SummaryThe state‐of‐the‐art in economic‐demographic modelling of regional populations was presented at the International Conference on Forecasting Regional Population Change and its Economic Determinants and Consequences held at Airlie House, Virginia, U.S.A. over May 26 to 29, 1982. This review of papers presented at the Conference concludes that such modelling is at an early stage of development and currently provides only an adjunct to more conventional methods of regional forecasting. Given expected future improvements in the theory, data and techniques of economic‐demographic modelling, such models could soon provide a worthwhile al