Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2009 Oct 27; 364(1532): 2985–2990.
PMCID: PMC2781829
doi: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0137
Human population growth and the demographic transition John Bongaarts * The Population Council, One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York, NY 10017, USA * Email:
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ABSTRACT
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1.INTRODUCTION
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2.FUTURE POPULATION TRENDS
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3.DRIVERS OF POPULATION GROWTH: FERTILITY AND MORTALITY
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(a) Fertility
(b) Mortality and life expectancy
4.CHANGING POPULATION AGE COMPOSITION
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(a) The age-dependency ratio
(b) Population momentum
5.CONCLUSION
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FOOTNOTES
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One contribution of 14 to a Theme Issue ‘The impact of population growth on tomorrow's world’.
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