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Demographic Research, Vol. 44 (JANUARY - JUNE 2021), pp. 1115-1132 (20 pages) BACKGROUND The second demographic transition (SDT), which links ideational changes with demographic developments, is one ...

Demographic Research, Vol. 19 (JULY - DECEMBER 2008), pp. 907-972 (68 pages) The demographic transition in Russia was accelerated by several social cataclysms during the “Soviet type” modernization.

Sub-Saharan Africa could reap significant benefits from its growing population—if the transition is well managed Sub-Saharan Africa’s most formidable economic asset could soon be its people. As the ...

With 1.4 billion and 1.2 billion people respectively, China and India currently account for 37 per cent of the world’s population. Thirty years later, they are expected to account for roughly the same ...

World population has breached the eight billion mark. Though the population has increased in absolute terms, it is characterised by demographic transition which provide economic opportunity or ...

Rising incomes, increasing levels of education — particularly in women — and a variety of social factors contribute to determining the demographic profile of India’s youth and their role in India’s ...

The Development Policy Research Unit received funding from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) to estimate National Transfer Accounts for South Africa; and from UNU-Wider for the ...

Africa’s growing population of young people is an economic resource that could bring positive change to the continent’s economic future. African countries are experiencing what is known as the ...