The terms of reference of this report are to indicate the "impact of alternative foreseeable population trends upon economic development prospects and assistance needs of less developed countries". In it we consider the effects of varying the rate of natural increase of population on a "less...

Demographic transition is a set of changes in reproductive behaviour that are experienced as a society is transformed from a traditional pre-industrial state to a highly developed, modernized structure. The transformation is the substitution of slow growth achieved with low fertility and...