Books | Demography Redux
by Chinmay Tumbe
Nov 08, 2019
2 minutes
My grandmother had eight siblings, my mother, two, and I, none. This familiar pattern is indicative of the demographic transition that every society on earth has gone or is going through-from a regime of high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates. Since death rates tend to plummet first, societies experience a surge in population growth rates, after which they stabilise
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