Lardinois Roland. ? A Demographic Crisis in Southern India During the 19th Century. The Famine of 1876-1878. The famine of 1876-1878 provides an example of the subsistence crises which occurred on the Indian sub-continent from time to time during the 19th century. It was triggered by a drought...

Lardinois Roland. ? The Present Demographic Situation in India. The Indian birth rate continues to fall slowly and now stands at a level of about 35 per 1 000 population. The decline in mortality has slowed down, and differences in mortality between the two sexes have practically disappeared. As...

Eggerickx (Thierry), Tabutin (Dominique). - Higher Mortality Rates among Belgian Girls in 1890. A Regional Approach During the nineteenth century, mortality of women between the ages of 2 and 30 years exceeded that of men, as it did in other European countries. This paper is designed to show the...

N'cho Sombo and Ta butin Dominique. ? Trends and causes of mortality in Mauritius since 1940. Mauritius experienced a brutal fall of mortality in 1949-50, due to campaigns of eradication of malaria, the mortality rate fell from 24 to 14 p. 1 000. Mortality then decreased regularly, then slows...

Tabutin Dominique. ? Regional Movements in Fertility in Western Zaire. In this paper, the results of several studies relating to fertility in Western Zaire are brought together. There are considerable variations in fertility within this region. In the equatorial zone, fertility was very low,...

Tabutin Dominique. ? Fertility and mortality in African censuses over the last 25 years. In this article the frequency and type of questions asked about fertility and mortality in 25 African censuses taken since 1956 are studied. An increase in so-called « indirect » questions is noted : total...