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Demographic Transition in the Maghreb
Geography, 1999In a 1985 Geography article, John Clarke demonstrated the very limited demographic transition experienced by North Africa as part of the Muslim World. Over a decade later all the Maghreb countries, together with Egypt, have achieved quite marked demographic transition based on strong fertility decline.
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Demographic Transition in Japan
The Journal of Economic History, 1977This article begins by disputing the claim by some scholars that the concept of a demographic transition is not applicable to Japan. Next, analysis of differentials and trends in natality over the period 1920 to 1960 suggests that changes in infant mortality and the degree of child employability may have been crucial reasons for Japan's modern ...
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Men in the demographic transition
Human Nature, 1994Women's fertility is the focus of most demographic analyses, for in most mammals, and in many preindustrial societies, variance in male fertility, while an interesting biological phenomenon, is irrelevant. Yet in monogamous societies, the reproductive ecology of men, as well as that of women, is important is creating reproductive patterns.
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Population Studies, 1996
Demography is a science short on theory, rich in quantification. Nevertheless, demography has produced one of the best documented generalizations in the social sciences: the demographic transition. What is the demographic transition? Stripped to its essentials it is the theory that societies progress from a pre-modern regime of high fertility and high ...
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Demography is a science short on theory, rich in quantification. Nevertheless, demography has produced one of the best documented generalizations in the social sciences: the demographic transition. What is the demographic transition? Stripped to its essentials it is the theory that societies progress from a pre-modern regime of high fertility and high ...
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The demographic transition in Japan
Social Science & Medicine. Part A: Medical Psychology & Medical Sociology, 1978Abstract 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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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'
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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'
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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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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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The demographic transition [PDF]
, 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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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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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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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 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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