In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...
Demographic transition means shift from high birth rate and high death rate to low birth rate and low death rate. Demographers contend that demographic transition will have taken place when the birth ...
This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information POPULATION, a bimonthly journal (five or six issues a year), published in French since 1946, features original studies in the field ...
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BACKGROUND One of the fundamental arguments sustaining the classical demographic transition theory was that couples wanted to have a given number of surviving children, not a specific number of births ...
Interest rates have been trending down for more than two decades. One possible explanation is the dramatic worldwide demographic transition, with people living longer and population growth rates ...
While listening to a speaker at a seminar mention demographic dividend I was reminded of my school days more than half a century ago. We were then taught that a major challenge to economic development ...
A new World Bank report notes that the slow decline of fertility rates in Africa will likely result in a rapidly growing population of youth, with the region becoming a much larger part of the world ...