Demography: The Study of Human Population
The authors have skillfully recrafted this classic text into an exciting, up-to-date introduction to demography that reflects the field’s evolution into a rich and diversified discipline. While maintaining the basic framework of the successful previous edition, the Second Edition’s content has been thoroughly revised to incorporate a broad range of the latest demographic theories as well as timely examples. New chapters on “Morbidity and Health” and “Population Diversity” mirror the changing...
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Designed for a quarter- or semester-long undergraduate course, this textbook presents an introduction to the study of demography with an emphasis on demographic problems. Topics addressed include the evolution of the U.S. Census, global population growth, age and sex structure, fertility, mortality, migration, urbanization, and marital trends. The second edition contains new chapters on morbidity and health as well as population diversity. The text is accompanied throughout by graphs and tables illustrating demographic trends. Annotation © Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Preface1Introduction12Demographic Data173Population Growth394Age and Sex Structure755Mortality1216Morbidity and Health1577Fertility1838Marriage and Householding2339Migration27110Urbanization31311Population Diversity343Glossary377Index389
