The variations in the initiation, course, speed and terminations of demographic transitions may involve cultural and temporal specificities as well as historic incidents. In this article there is an ...
American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 5 (Mar., 1964), pp. 476-490 (15 pages) Data from contemporary Egypt refute almost all the generalizations about urban-rural demographic differences that ...
Following the launch of the recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on the state of the world’s population, there has been much worry that the size of Bangladesh’s population has now ...
Source: BlacknoseDace/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It seems we are surrounded by a generation of singles. Therapy sessions, workshops, and the psychology literature are fixated on the ultimate ...
AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...
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 ...