Industrial countries have largely completed what is called the "demographic transition"—the transition from a largely rural agrarian society with high fertility and mortality rates to a predominantly ...

Based on the stylized facts of the demographic transition model, one can see the dynamics of Bangladesh’s population transition. According to the United Nation’s Population Prospects 2008 ...

What social scientists refer to as the “demographic transition” has long been an essential feature of economic modernisation. In pre-industrial societies both birth and death rates (annual ...

The second demographic transition (SDT) is a theory that describes ... is being replaced by a more individualistic and egalitarian model. A later marriage, low fertility rates, and a greater ...

In this Economic Letter we use the macroeconomic model of Carvalho, Ferrero, and Nechio (2016) to assess how this demographic transition—people living longer and population growth rates declining—has ...

3). We have constructed a model of the demographic transition and its relationship to economic growth using the key indicator variables log GDP per capita, child mortality and total fertility rate.

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What are the major reasons for the slow demographic transition in the least developed countries, and what can they do to speed up the demographic transition, and create conducive conditions for a ...

Further, we compare the genetic correlation before and after the demographic transition to low mortality and fertility rates. The genetic correlation was consistently high (0.79–0.92 ...