Sources of population data -- Population distribution -- Urban-rural distribution -- Population growth -- Age-sex composition -- Literacy and education -- Marital status -- Economic composition -- Fertility -- Mortality and life table -- Migration -- Population theories --...

Part one: Population and history. Introduction ; The weight of numbers -- Part two: The gathering tide : among the Europeans. The triumph of the Anglo-Saxons ; The German and Russian challenges ; The passing of the 'great race' ; The West since 1945 : from baby-boom to mass immigration ; Russia...

This book is a sweeping global and intellectual history that radically recasts our understanding of Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population, the most famous book on population ever written or ever likely to be. Malthus's Essay is also persistently misunderstood. First published...

Demography is far more important than destiny. By tracing connections between a population's past and present, demographers can foresee its future. The true wonder of demography, though, is not its ability to predict the future but to shape it. With energy and passion, demographer Liz Allen sets...