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The demographic transition in Japan

Social Science & Medicine. Part A: Medical Psychology & Medical Sociology, 1978
Abstract This article attempts to provide some information for understanding the subjects dealt with under the main theme of “Social Science in Relation to Health and Medicine in Japan” of this special issue. My paper is in three parts: (I) a brief history of population increase, (2) demographic transition and (3) prospects in the demographic ...
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Demographic Transition

Sociological Research, 2013
Some forecasts based on possible trends in population in Russia suggest that it may be possible to achieve stabilization of the population. However, the actual demographic situation and the conditions in Russian society raise doubt about this, and about the possibility of sustaining and enhancing the quality of an aging and declining population. Russia'
N. M. Rimashevskaia   +3 more
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The demographic transition [PDF]

open access: possible, 2006
The evolution of economies over most of human history was marked by Malthusian stagnation. vTechnological progress and population growth were miniscule by modern standards and the average growth rate of income per capita was even slower due to the offsetting effect of population growth on the expansion of resources per capita. In the past two centuries,
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The demographic transition.

2019
This chapter describes how the demographic changes interact with the physical environment and the consolidated organisation of the Italian urban system, giving rise to new territorial patterns of the human settlements. Since the early decades after the World War II, the events that led Italy to a new economic and social development also determined a ...
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Demographic Transitions

2014
A demographic transition can be defined as a quantitative leap in the self-regulated flow of population inputs and outputs which is determined by a qualitative change in the causal mechanisms underlying this regulation. This entry briefly describes the two demographic transitions which occurred during the Holocene, the Neolithic Demographic Transition (
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Demographic Transitions

2019
The demographic trends of the past 150 years have been sustainably influenced by two demographic transitions. Demographic transformations represent periods of interruption in the constant course of demographic development, during which time the way the reproduction of the population takes place changes significantly.
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The Demographic Transition

1992
Abstract This book examines the basic mechanisms behind the modernization of demographic behaviour. The author has marshalled an impressive amount of statistical material relating to 67 countries, half of them less developed, and covering the period 1720-1984.
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The Demographic Transitions

2020
Gayl D. Ness, Meghan V. Golay
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