Demographic transition theory has been widely criticized on at least two points: first, it does not accurately describe the historical demographic changes in the early industrialized nations; second, ...

In this paper variations in marital fertility and nuptiality in 48 Hungarian provinces over the period 1880-1910 are investigated in order to test competing hypotheses about the socio-economic and ...

Following the launch of the recent United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) report on the state of the world’s population, there has been much worry that the size of Bangladesh’s population has now ...