In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...

Demographic transition means shift from high birth rate and high death rate to low birth rate and low death rate. Demographers contend that demographic transition will have taken place when the birth ...

This article examines the "second demographic transition" theory in light of changes in the Romanian demographic structure over the past fifty years. The author shows that the birth—death rate ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 5 (Mar., 1964), pp. 476-490 (15 pages) Data from contemporary Egypt refute almost all the generalizations about urban-rural demographic differences that ...

World population has breached the eight billion mark. Though the population has increased in absolute terms, it is characterised by demographic transition which provide economic opportunity or ...

AS BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS go, it was momentous. On November 24th India’s government declared that the country’s fertility rate had dropped to 2.0 children per woman. That is below the replacement rate—at ...

A new World Bank report notes that the slow decline of fertility rates in Africa will likely result in a rapidly growing population of youth, with the region becoming a much larger part of the world ...