The Agricultural Revolution accompanied, either as a cause or as an effect, important changes in human demographic systems. The consensus model is that fertility and mortality increased and health ...

American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 5 (Mar., 1964), pp. 476-490 (15 pages) Data from contemporary Egypt refute almost all the generalizations about urban-rural demographic differences that ...

Benjamin Carton, Emilio Fernández Corugedo, Benjamin L Hunt, and Simon Voigts. "Demographic Transition and Pension Reforms: Adding Demographics to GIMF", IMF Working ...

Following the launch of the recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on the state of the world’s population, there has been much worry that the size of Bangladesh’s population has now ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition. This paper examines the implications of such transition over ...

Sri Lanka is experiencing a demographic bonus, with a significantly larger working-age population than children and the elderly. The share of the elderly population over 60 years old is expected to ...