The emergence of stable and quasi-stable population theory has been one of the most interesting developments of demographic theory in the recent past. Zelnik and Rahman Khan writing in the Spring 1965 issue of this Review have applied this methodology to Pakistani data with rather interesting...

Mortality in a population is measured by a number of demographic indices such as the crude death rate, the infant mortality rate, the age-specific death rate or the standardised death rate. Still another more comprehensive method of portr,aying mortality conditions in a population is by means of...