PLAN105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Demographic Transition, Silent Generation, Baby Boomers
2 Jan 2017
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Lecture: week 6 - demography and socioeconomic information. The three demographic questions are explored in terms of the three demographic processes of: fertility having children, mortality death, migration people moving around. Demography is the scientific study of the size, composition, and spatial distribution of human populations; And the changes that occur in these phenomena through the processes of fertility, Demography a central element of planning for the future. Not just about population size and growth but age structure (composition) is key: dependency ratio = (((# of under 15) + (# of 65 and over)) / (# of 15 to 64)) x 100. Demographic transition typifies the process that societies have gone through and are going through. Not all countries move through this process at the same pace. At least the key rates of birth and death: no (cid:862)(cid:373)ajor eve(cid:374)ts(cid:863) big enough to dent the population. Migration can be more dynamic reactionary etc. Demography at the community level planning perspectives.
