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Article: The demographic transition.(Report)
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- Pakistan Development Review
- Article date:
- December 22, 1984
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1984 Reproduced with permission of the Publications Division, Pakistan Institute of Development Economies, Islamabad, Pakistan. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Demographic transition is a set of changes in reproductive behaviour that are experienced as a society is transformed from a traditional pre-industrial state to a highly developed, modernized structure. The transformation is the substitution of slow growth achieved with low fertility and mortality for slow growth maintained with relatively high fertility and mortality rates. Contrary to early descriptions of the transition, fertility in pre-modern societies was well below the maximum that might be attained. However, it was kept at moderate levels by customs (such as late marriage or prolonged breast-feeding) not related to the number of children already born. Fertility ...
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Dictionary definition: demographic transition
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...demographic transition The pattern of transition ... mortality are low. According to demographic transition theory, developed from the ... devoted to debating whether the demographic transition will follow a similar pattern ...
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