Demography

Demography (from prefix demo- from Ancient Greek δῆμος dēmos meaning "the people", and -graphy from γράφω graphō, implies "writing, description or measurement") is the statistical study of populations, especially human beings. As a very general science, it can analyse any kind of dynamic living population, i.e., one that changes over time or space (see population dynamics). Demography encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and spatial or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, ageing, and death. Based on the demographic research o ...more

An Essay on the Principle of Population
Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline
The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World
What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster
Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-first Century
Why Demography Matters
A Concise History of World Population: Fourth Edition
After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People
The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization
The American Census: A Social History
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Political Demography: How Population Changes are Reshaping International Security and National Politics
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
Demography: Measuring and Modeling Population Processes
The Great Demographic Reversal: Ageing Societies, Waning Inequality, and an Inflation Revival
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