With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades. Extraordinary demographic changes took place in China in the second half of the twentieth century having wide-ranging consequences. This book, written by a group of leading experts, examines these profound changes in an effort to understand their long term impact and provide an up-to-date account of China's demographic reality. The volume provides a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of a wide range of issues such as China's unprecedented family...
With the largest population in the world, China has experienced significant demographic, social, and economic changes in recent decades. Extraordinary...
Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality. To be human is to be part of the demographic process, so contemporary studies of population focus not only on the implications of population size and change, but also on how social influences affect individual behaviour and how actions at the individual level contribute to the composition of the population.
Globally, population issues are of increasing concern to governments and other policy-makers. Particularly over the last...
Demography is the scientific study of human populations. Classical demography has at its core three processes: fertility, migration, and mortality....
