Biraben Jean-Noël and Blanchet Didier. ? The Natural Population Movement in France Before 1670. This article presents the principles, organization and initial results of an enquiry into old registration records, intended to take our knowledge of the natural movement of the French population as...

Biraben (Jean-Noël).- A New Synthesis of the Population History of Japan During the last 15 years historical demographers have completely revised and extended our knowledge of the population history of Japan. New synthesis is attempted in the present paper, as far as total numbers of...

Biraben Jean-Noël. ? Tentative survey results on population movements in France before 1670. Unforeseen difficulties prevented the completion of this survey at the end of 1984 as planned; however, most of the results have already been collated : ?work in 164 rural parishes, i.e. 64% of the total...

SUMMARY The population of France was estimated to amount to 52,675,000 persons on January 1, 1975. Its rate of growth is about average (8.5 % over ten years) and it has been ageing steadily since 1966, the proportion of young people decreasing and that of adults and old people increasing....