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 ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information POPULATION, a bimonthly journal (five or six issues a year), published in French since 1946, features original studies in the field ...

Population Studies, Vol. 53, No. 2 (Jul., 1999), pp. 255-262 (8 pages) Population momentum is the ratio of a population's ultimate size after a demographic transition to its initial size before the ...

I recently moved back to Russia after spending more than two decades away – and I found a country quite different from the one I left in the late 1990s. The development journey that Russia has ...

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 ...

One of the more striking trends across the developed world in recent decades is the demographic transition. As economies develop, and women in particular enter the workforce, people have fewer ...

China’s economy is at a transformational moment. For more than two decades, a growth model centered on the debt-fueled construction of housing and infrastructure propelled the country’s rapid ...

Marriages in South Korea have dropped by nearly half over the past three decades, while annual births have fallen to just one-third of 1995 levels, according to newly released data. The numbers show ...