Population and demography

This book examines the long term consequences of improvements in life expectancy in the mid 20th century which are partly responsible for the growth of the elderly population in the developing world.

Military recruitment will become more difficult in times of demographic aging.

This book provides an overview of the health of developing nations in the early twenty-first century.

This book provides an up-to-date overview of demographic analysis and methods, including recent developments in demography.

This book presents both theoretical contributions and empirical applications of advanced statistical techniques including geo-additive models that link individual measures with area variables to account for spatial correlation; multilevel models that address the issue of clustering within family and household; multi-process models that account for interdependencies over life-course events and non-random utilization of health services; and flexible parametric alternatives to existing intensity models.

This book provides a fresh analysis of the demography, health and well-being of a major African city.

In this book, leading academics and practitioners in the field of reproductive health address topics such as contraception, abortion, sexually transmitted infections, maternal and prenatal health, sexuality and reproductive rights by examining a number of critical issues in these areas.

This book investigates sociological, demographic and geographic aspects of aging in rural and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States.

This book is the first to present a detailed analysis of economic integration of immigrants in smaller areas of their host nations.

This book combines the disciplines of applied demography and public health by describing how applied demographic techniques can be used to help address public health issues.

Europe currently is the oldest continent in the world and its population is still ageing.

This book explores the process of decision-making around having children in a sample of 115 men, women and couples for whom family formation was a recent past, current or imminent future issue.

This book examines the dynamics of power within the families of married women who have migrated from rural areas to China's Dalian Economic Zone.

The 2012 American Jewish Year Book, "e;The Annual Record of American Jewish Civilization,"e; contains major chapters on Jewish secularism (Barry Kosmin and Ariela Keysar), Canadian Jewry (Morton Weinfeld, David Koffman, and Randal Schnoor), national affairs (Ethan Felson), Jewish communal affairs (Lawrence Grossman), Jewish population in the United States (Ira Sheskin and Arnold Dashefsky), and World Jewish population (Sergio DellaPergola).

Today, India still remains a rural agricultural country although the share of urban population has also increased but these figures do not tell the whole story.

This rare interdisciplinary combination of research into neighbourhood dynamics and effects attempts to unravel the complex relationship between disadvantaged neighbourhoods and the life outcomes of the residents who live therein.

This book documents research conducted on the analysis of urban growth and sprawl by using remote sensing data and GIS techniques.

Since the 1973 publication of Alain Peyrefitte's prophetic When China Awakens, developments in East Asia have outstripped even the wildest predictions.

This book is a practical guide on how to design, create and validate a spatial microsimulation model.

Across the EU, populations are shrinking and ageing.

This book touches upon a few of the major challenges that all modern societies will have to face in the near future: how to set up a resilient pay-as-you-go pension system; whether the current balance between expenses and revenues in social expenditure is viable in the future, and, if not, what changes need to be introduced; whether the relative well-being of the current and future cohorts of the old will be preserved, and how their standards of living compare to those experienced by the old in the recent past.

Key Demographics in Retirement Risk Management argues that the weakening of public and employer-sponsored social safety nets in several countries will permanently increase pre-retirees' risk-anxiety and create pressure towards readjustment of their expectations about the quality of their lives in retirement.

People's transnational ties and activities are acquiring ever greater importance and topicality in today's world.

This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience.

Mediation, the facilitated discussion of disputes and conflicts, is a flexible approach that can be used at all levels of intervention to move us toward a global peace that is both inclusive and fair.

This book examines the history behind the formulation, implementation, and evaluation of population policies in the more developed, the less developed, and the least developed countries from 1950 until today, as well as their future prospects.

Regional mortality differences are one dimension of health inequalities, but its trends and determinants in Germany are widely unknown.

Applied demography continues its rapid pace of evolution in concert with the emerging trends of the 21st century.

Fertility rates vary considerably across and within societies, and over time.

This is the book that market strategists have been waiting for to position themselves in global markets and take advantage of the opportunities that demographic bonuses and deficits offer to them and their products.

This is the third in an essential series of Springer handbooks that explore key aspects of the nexus between demography and social science.

The book explores interlinkages between women's employment and fertility at both a macro- and a micro-level in EU member states, Norway and Switzerland.

This brief represents a comprehensive review of methods for estimating characteristics of the foreign-born population in the United States, specifically oriented toward characteristics by legal status.

In provocative terms that push the envelope of technical, administrative, and legal capabilities, Swanson and Walashek propose a re-vamped US census based neither on the current system, self-enumeration, nor its predecessor, door-to-door canvassing.

This book is an authoritative account of rural development in Iran, spanning 60 years and 2 distinct political regimes.

This book provides a comprehensive portrait of the experience of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the US.

Population ageing has been going on for many decades, but population shrinking is a rather new phenomenon.

Navigating Time and Space in Population Studies presents innovative approaches to long-standing questions about the diffusion of population and demographic behavior across space and over time.

This book Food in a Planetary Emergency is a timely overview of the current food systems and the required transformations to respond to the challenges of climate change, population pressures, biodiversity loss and use of natural resources, such as soils, water and phosphorus.

The "e;leave no one behind"e; principle espoused by the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires measures of progress for different segments of the population.

This book is the first one in which basic demographic models are rigorously formulated by using modern age-structured population dynamics, extended to study real-world population problems.

Angus Maddison provides a comprehensive view of the growth and levels of world population since the year 1000 when rich countries of today were poorer than Asia and Africa.

This annual edition of Labour Force Statistics provides detailed statistics on population, labour force, employment and unemployment, broken down by sex, as well as unemployment duration, employment status, employment by sector of activity and part-time employment.

This report presents a summary of recommendations on how we can all gain from migration.

Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected.

Over the past decades Europe has witnessed fundamental changes of its population dynamics and population structure.

Do adoptions provide children for families or families for children?

Over a half of adults in the US, Canada, Australia and numerous European countries are now overweight or obese, a proportion that has risen sharply in the past two decades.

Providing a unified and comprehensive treatment of the theory and techniques of sub-national population estimation, this much-needed publication does more than collate disparate source material.