The Demographic Transition: Stages, Patterns, and Economic Implications

by Jean-Claude Chesnais, Elizabeth Kreager, Philip Kreager

Overview

The whole sweep of Western experience of the modernization of demographic behavior is dealt with impartially in this work. Though it is technically sophisticated, the book also covers issues of interpretation and analysis of European and non-European demographic transitions. The author argues that less developed countries are following the same general patterns as developed countries, and shows why he believes the theory should include the effect of population changes on the economic progress of society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198286592
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/25/1993
Pages:	646
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

	List of Figures	vii
	List of Tables	ix
	List of Abbreviations	xiii
	Introduction: The 'Theory' of Demographic Transition: Its Conciseness, Diversity, and Flexibility	1
1.	Problems, Methods, and the Field of Enquiry	10
Part I.	Stages of Demographic Transition	27
2.	Demographic Transition: The Current Position	29
3.	The Decline in Mortality	47
4.	The Fertility Decline	88
5.	Divergence and Concordance	138
6.	The Migration Transition	153
7.	The Notion of the Cycle in Demography: Is Post-transitional Fertility Cyclical?	190
Part II.	Forms of Demographic Transition	219
8.	The Types of Demographic Transition	221
9.	Chronology and Typology of the Ageing of Populations	284
10.	The Transitional Multiplier of Population	302
11.	Industrial Revolution and Demographic Revolution in the Eighteenth Century: The French-English Paradox	321
12.	European Transitions from Malthus to Pincus	344
13.	Contemporary Transitions: The Strength of the Model	368
14.	Revolution of Mental Attitudes and Demographic Revolution	398
Part III.	Economic Implications of Demographic Transition	411
15.	Economic Stagnation and Neo-Malthusianism: Two Falsely Opposed Models	413
16.	Economic Progress and Demographic Transition in Poor Countries: Thirty Years of Experience, 1950-1980	431
17.	Secular Growth in the Industrial World	447
18.	Economic Breakthrough in Poor Countries	487
	General Conclusion	513
	Appendices
1.	Crude Birth-Rates	517
2.	Total Fertility Rates	542
3.	Crude Death-Rates	555
4.	Infant Mortality Rates	579
5.	Real Product	598
	General Bibliograph	617
	Index	623