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Demographic Transitions and Modernity [PDF]

Annual Review of Anthropology, 2008
Much contemporary anthropology is concerned with the origin, character, and consequences of late modernity. Surprisingly absent in this literature is the importance of population size, structure, and process. In particular, the demographic transition—or historical change from a high to a low equilibrium of birth and death rates—is an important ...
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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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Second Demographic Transition

2019
Encyclopedia of Gerontology and Population ...
Vikram, Kriti, Visaria, Abhijit
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Impact of Demographic Transition on Economic Growth of Pakistan

, 2015
The global process of demographic transition has had profound and far reaching social and economic implications for the world. Pakistan is in the third stage of demographic transition and this scenario is marked with new options, opportunities ...
Khalid Iqbal, N. Yasmin, M. Yaseen
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Demographic Transition

Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, 2021

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INTERNATIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONS

2004
Population ageing, sometimes called demographic ageing, is now a worldwide phenomenon. Technically any population whose average age is rising can be said to be ageing, but usually the term is more specifically used with reference to an increase in the proportion of persons aged over 60 or 65.1 Such an increase has been taking place in the currently ...
Kevin McCracken, David Phillips
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Old age and the demographic transition

Population Studies, 1984
Summary This paper examines the impact of the demographic transition upon the potential supply of, and demand for, family support for the aged in Australia. Using census and survey information on population cohorts entering old age, comparisons are drawn concerning their surviving issue, household composition and family membership.
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Continuing Demographic Transitions in Asia

Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, 1996
This article updates the literature survey on demographic trends and policies published in the May 1987 issue of this journal. It reports substantial adjustments in earlier population projections, suggesting slower decline in population growth rates for China and several other Asian countries.
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Global Cancer Statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN Estimates of Incidence and Mortality Worldwide for 36 Cancers in 185 Countries

Ca-A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, 2021
Hyuna Sung, Jacques Ferlay, Rebecca L Siegel   +2 more
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The Benign Demographic Transition

1993
The child survival hypothesis is immensely popular with politicians, religious leaders, and executives of organizations engaged in foreign philanthropy, because it justifies the anti-Malthusian and tender-minded belief that reducing infant mortality will automatically bring about a reduction in fertility. The belief easily converts into policy, because
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