HST 296 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Muslim Population Growth, Israeli Jews, One-Child Policy
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Demography: the statistical study of human population with reference too . Demographics is an example of submerged history that sometimes becomes conspicuous. States show us in many ways how we live. Many of today"s generation expect to live past 75 while if we were born in the 1940s we wouldn"t have expected to make it past 65. Demographics also plays a role in state power. France was always scared when germany"s birth rate increased. +israeli jews are alarmed that muslim population growth will make jews a minority within israel. European countries have very low birth rates and many of them want to boost it so they don"t decline in economic power. +need a young working generation to replace the old workers. Population growth accelerates after war and so does life expectancy. Europe, north america and japan experienced the boom first but most of the world caught up by 1960.
