Sociology 2236A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Demographic Transition, Kingsley Davis, Pison
5 Mar 2017
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Future: short term vs. long term: von forester. Doomsday equation: nov 13th, 2026 = at this date, human population will approach infinity if it has grown in the last 2 millennia. World population has risen seven-fold over the last two hundred years. Market economics and globalization are lifting the bulk of humanity out of extreme poverty, but special measures are needed to help the poorest of the poor. Norway(0. 938), australia nz, usa, ireland, canada, netherlands, japan. Malawi, rwanda, kenya, uganda, nepal, nigeria, benin, yemen, haiti, bangladesh, ghana, Until some 200 years ago, the size of the human population remained fairly stable because high birth rates were balanced by high death rates. The great demographic transition came when death rates fell (cid:862)a. j coale. Most of the worlds population increase has taken pace in the past two centuries. It took hundreds of thousands of years for the human race too reach its 1960 total of about 3 billion.
