Introduction to Demography
What is Demography?
The scientific study of human population Concerned with:
Population size Population growth or decline Population processes Population distribution Population structure Population characteristics
Crude birth rate (CBR) is the number of live births in a year divided by the total midyear population General fertility rate (GFR): the total number of births in a year divided by the number of women in the childbearing ages Total fertility rates (TFRs): the average total number of children a woman will have Replacement-level fertility: 2.1?
Population Pyramids
Population Pyramids
Poverty
Unbalanced sex-ratio in ghetto areas Urban sprawl: rich-poor segregation
Riding the Age Wave: Births and Selected Age Groups in the U.S.
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Is Demography Destiny?
Demography shapes the world, even if it does not determine it. Population change is an underlying component of almost everything happening in the world today, and therefore in the future as well The sun never sets on demographic change!