Normal view
MARC view
Demographic transition (Topical Term)
Used for/see from:
- Transition, Demographic
- Vital revolution (Demography)
See also:
Here are entered works on the theory that the initial effect of modernization in human societies is a growing margin of births over deaths and an accelerating rate of population growth, and that at a later stage of socioeconomic development the size of the family is reduced by birth control and the birth rate falls, eventually reducing the rate of population growth.