Demographic Transition Theory
Caldwell, John C. / Caldwell, B.K. / Caldwell, P. / McDonald, P.F. / Schindlmayr, T.
The demographic transition is the change in the human condition from high mortality and high fertility to low mortality and low fertility. Death is now less capricious and most people live long lives. Women no longer average six or seven births but in most economically advanced countries less than two — insufficient to replenish national populations. Most of this dramatic social change has occurred over the last 150 years. But the question rem...
