Demographic Transition - Stages, Patterns, and Economic Implications

Zusatztext It has been translated very successfully from French...where data are available! it provides rich time series data on the trends it covers. It is certainly a rich source and will retain this reference status for many years to come. This is an impressive work. Klappentext Demographic transition constitutes one of the most fundamental modern historical changes; people live much longer, have fewer children, and experience higher mobility. This book examines the basic mechanisms behind the modernisation of demographic behaviour. The author has marshalled an impressive array of statistical material relating to sixty-seven countries, half of them less developed countries. Most of the tables are time-series, covering many decades and sometimes go back to the nineteenth, and even eighteenth centuries. The whole sweep of western experience is dealt with here impartially. Though technically sophisticated, the book also covers issues of interpretation and analysis. The author puts forward a number of challenging propositions: mortality decrease is shown to necessarily precede fertility and decline, so-called execptions being simply false exceptions. He shows how the decline of fertility is dependent on important and manifold social transformations. The strong connections between international migration and the course of demographic transition are demonstrated, as is the fact that less developed countries are following the same general patterns as MDCs. There is also discussion of why the theory of demographic transition must include the effect of population changes on the economic progress of society. Zusammenfassung Demographic transition is seen as the most fundamental change of modern history: people live longer, have fewer children and experience a higher mobility. This book explores why and in what context this transformation has occurred.

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• Authors: Jean-Claude Chesnais, Jean-Claude (Head Chesnais, Chesnais Jean-Claude, Elizabeth Kreager, Philip Kreager
• Assisted by: Elizabeth Kreager (Translation), Philip Kreager (Translation), Kreager Elizabeth (Translation), Kreager Philip (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.1992
• EAN: 9780198286592
• ISBN: 978-0-19-828659-2
• No. of pages: 646
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Demography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social and cultural history, Social research & statistics, Population & demography, Population and Demography, Social research and statistics