World Population Dynamics

<p style="MARGIN: 0px">In This Section:</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;I)&nbsp; Brief Table of Contents</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;II)&nbsp;&nbsp;Detailed Table of Contents </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> <hr> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">I) Brief Table of Contents</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 1. The Field of Demography</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 2. The Field of Demography</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 3. Sources of Demographic Data</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 4. Mortality Patterns in the Modern Era</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 5. History and Context of Mortality Differentials and Mortality Decline</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 6. Mortality Decline in the Less Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 7. Mortality Issues in the More Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 8. Fertility Patterns in the Modern Era</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 9. Theory and Practice of Fertility Decline in Historical Europe and in the Less Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 10. Fertility in the More Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 11. Age and Sex Structure and Population Projections</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 12. Migration and Urbanization</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp; </p> <hr> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">II) Detailed Table of Contents</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 1. The Field of Demography</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Study of Demography </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Uses of Demography </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Demographic Perspectives</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Major Population Phenomena and Related Theories and Frameworks</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Influence of History, Anthropology, Psychology, Political Science, and Statistics on Population Thinking</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Demography as a Field </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Demographic Patterns, Development, and Social Change </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Concluding Comments</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 2. The Field of Demography</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">World Population Growth</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Characteristics of World Regions and of the Ten Most Populous Countries</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Consequences of Population Size </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Population Balancing Equation and Components of Population Growth</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">World Population Aging</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">World Population Policy Concerns</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 3. Sources of Demographic Data</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Demographic Data Sources: Briefly Considered </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Combining of Census and Vital Registration Data to Calculate Rates </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Population Censuses: Considerations and Problems</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Registration of Vital Events: Considerations and Problems</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Population Registers: Considerations and Problems</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sample Surveys</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Historical Sources </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Administrative Data </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Assumptions and Accuracy of Estimates: UNAIDS Revision of HIV Prevalence Estimate for India in 2007 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Collection of Data about Race and Ethnicity</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Data Collection, Development Level, and Precision of Knowledge </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Timeliness of Available Demographic Data </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ethical Issues in Demographic Data Collection</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 4. Mortality Patterns in the Modern Era</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overall Mortality Trends—The Infant Mortality Rate and Expectation of Life at Birth</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mortality Trends by Region of Africa</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mortality Trends by Region of Europe </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mortality Indicators in the World’s Ten Most Populous Countries in 2010 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Trends in the Infant Mortality Rate and Expectation of Life at Birth in Selected Countries </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Typical Mortality Patterns </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Rectangularization of Mortality: The Example of Sweden </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Age-Adjusted Death Rates </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Life Table</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Effects of HIV on Mortality by Age and Sex </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Life Table Patterns in India, the United States, Japan, and Botswana in 2009</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Life Table Values Related to Fertility and Old-Age Support for the Ten Largest Countries in 2010 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sex Differences in Mortality by Age: The United States, Russia, and India </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sex Ratios by Age </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Sex Differentials in Infant and Child Mortality </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">What Is the Limit of the Human Life Span? </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Female Life Table Patterns with e₀⁰ from 25 to 100 Years</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Concept of a Cohort</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Real Cohorts and Synthetic Cohorts</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 5. History and Context of Mortality Differentials and Mortality Decline</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Epidemiologic Transition </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Historical Mortality Decline</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">More Consideration of Causes of Death and Disability</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 6. Mortality Decline in the Less Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Factors Related to Decline from High Mortality to Moderate Mortality in the Less Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 7. Mortality Issues in the More Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Most Important Public Health Achievements in the United States in the Twentieth Century </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Old Age Mortality Trends in the United States, France, and Japan</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Mortality from Natural Causes and from External Causes by Sex: United States, 2005</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 8. Fertility Patterns in the Modern Era</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The General Fertility Rate, the Child–Woman Ratio, and the Total Fertility Rate</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Sex Ratio at Birth </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Gross Reproduction Rate </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Net Reproduction Rate </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Calculation of the Net Reproduction Rate </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Fertility and Fertility Change in the Ten Most Populous Countries: From 1950–1955 to 2005–2010 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Growth Rate Resulting from Combinations of Expectation of Life at Birth and the Total Fertility Rate </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Net Reproduction Rate Resulting from Combinations of Expectation of Life at Birth and the Total Fertility Rate </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Highest Total Fertility Rate and Highest Net Reproduction Rate Countries: 2005–2010 </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Cohort Fertility </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Period and Cohort Total Fertility Rates in the United States: </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Great Depression and the Baby Boom </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Population Dynamics and Crisis in Rwanda </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Female Reproductive Period </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Fertility and Fecundity</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Birth Intervals </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Proximate Determinants of Fertility </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Marriage and Marital Fertility </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Changes in the Age Pattern of First Marriage</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Natural Fertility and Controlled Fertility</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Age Patterns of Natural and Controlled Fertility </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Contribution of Changes in Marriage Age and Fertility Control to the Shape of the Fertility Schedule </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Shifts in the Age Pattern of Fertility in Highly Developed, Low-Fertility Settings</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 9. Theory and Practice of Fertility Decline in Historical </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;Europe and in the Less Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Fertility Change in Historical Europe</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Coale’s Preconditions for Fertility Limitation</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Age at Marriage in Less Developed Countries </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Theories of Decline from High to Moderate or Low Fertility</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Some Reasons for the Persistence of High Fertility </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">KAP Surveys, Fertility Intentions, and Wantedness of Children</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Family-Planning Program in Taiwan: An Early Success Story </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Education of Women and the Fertility Transition </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Development of Contraceptive Methods </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Contraceptive Use </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Unmet Need for Family Planning </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Linking Adoption of Contraception to Other Contacts with the Health Care System</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Difference between Mortality Policy and Fertility Policy </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Shifts in Fertility Policy </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Controversies about the Roles of Development and Family-Planning Programs in Fertility Decline in Less Developed Countries </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Fertility Cannot Be Lowered and Raised Instantly like Turning a Water Tap Off or On: The Case of Singapore</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Changes in Fertility in Pairs of Less Developed Countries</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Unwanted Pregnancies, Unwanted Children, and Abortion</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 10. Fertility in the More Developed Region</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Contraceptive Use and Abortion in More Developed Countries</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Theories of Fertility Decline from Low to Very Low Fertility</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Changes in Aspects of Fertility in Low-Fertility Countries</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Marriage, Cohabitation, and Fertility Changes in the United States</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Examples of Policy Efforts to Raise Fertility</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Changes in Fertility in Pairs of More Developed Countries</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 11. Age and Sex Structure and Population Projections</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Median Age </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Young, Working Age, and Older Populations</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Population Pyramids for Actual Populations</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Population Projections</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Population Projections for the World, Italy, the United States, China, and Mali</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Actual Growth Rate, the Intrinsic Growth Rate, and Population Momentum</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Chapter 12. Migration and Urbanization</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Defining Migration</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Measuring Migration</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Migration Theories</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Movers and Stayers </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Migration and Mortality </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Migration and Climate Change </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Migration and Fertility </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Internal Migrants</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Government Policies and Views about Internal Migration </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Involuntary Internal Moves and Restrictions on Internal Migration</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Family Migration Decisions in the United States </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Patterns of U.S. Interregional Migration</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">International Migrants</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Government Policies about International Migration </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Immigration to the United States</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Citizenship Laws in Various Countries</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Resentment toward Immigrants</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Stateless Persons </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Political Shifts and International Migration </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">What Is Urban?</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Ideas about the Development of Urban Places and the Nature of Urban and Rural Life </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Urbanization and Urban Growth</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Urban and Rural Populations in the World: 1950–2010</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Urban Agglomerations</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Megalopolises </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Overbounded Cities, Underbounded Cities, and Alternative City Boundary Definitions </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Size Distributions of Cities</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Central Cities, Suburbanization, Transportation Improvement, and Nonmetropolitan Growth in the United States and Other MDR Countries </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">The Changing Nature of Rural Places</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Appendix A: United Nations Classification of Countries </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Appendix B: Websites with Useful Population Information </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Appendix C: Major Population Journals </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Glossary </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Index</p>