Title:
Demography : a very short introduction / Sarah Harper.
Author:
Harper, Sarah, author.
Publication Information:
[Oxford] : Oxford University Press, [2018]
©2018
Call Number:
HB871 .H348 2018
Abstract:
The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within which that life is lived; the person's access to social and natural resources (food, water, education, jobs, sexual partners); and even the length of that person's life. Demography, literally the study of people, addresses the size, distribution, composition, and density of populations, and considers the impact the drivers which mediate these will have on both individual lives and the changing structure of human populations.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780198725732
Series:
Very short introductions ; 565
Very short introductions ; 565.
Physical Description:
xviii, 132 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Contents:
Demography is destiny...or not -- From 55,000 to 7 billion -- The fathers of demographic thought -- The entrance of statistics and mathematical models -- The drivers -- The demographic transition-centerpiece of demography -- A demographer's toolbox -- Population pyramids and projections -- Sub-disciplines arise -- Population policies and future challenges.
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