Elements of DemographyDuring the last 30 years or more ‘Demography’ has had to go through various degrees of change under the impact of new theories and ideas. Prof. Sinha and Prof. Zacharia have made a sincere and successful endeavour to present systematically and lucidly all these new trends in recent thinking in studies of Demography. The book is written in a compact, coherent and comprehensive manner and enables the students to have a thorough knowledge of the elements of demography and population problems of India and abroad. The book is intended to serve as a textbook for M.A. and M.Com. courses of all Indian universities. |
Contents
| 1 | |
| 13 | |
| 20 | |
| 46 | |
Mortality and Mortality Measurement | 67 |
Morbidity | 99 |
11 | 108 |
Population | 131 |
Widow Remarriage in India | 336 |
26 | 349 |
Migration in India | 384 |
28 | 396 |
29 | 403 |
221281 | 408 |
Development of India | 463 |
Population Policy in India | 491 |
The Life Table | 166 |
Migration | 182 |
22 | 219 |
Malthusian Theory of Population | 224 |
NeoMalthusianism | 238 |
18 | 254 |
Trends in Indian Population Growth | 289 |
Trends and Differentials in Fertility Birth Rates | 302 |
Age at Marriage in India | 320 |
PART IVWORLD POPULATION | 523 |
Population of Japan | 540 |
Population of China | 549 |
Population of Sri Lanka | 557 |
Population of U S S | 569 |
Population of United States of America | 575 |
Population of Great Britain | 588 |
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age at marriage age group age specific agriculture Andhra Pradesh average Bihar birth rate capita income cause census cent child cities crores decade decline Delhi demographic demographic transition dependency ratio developed countries distribution economic development employment estimated factors family planning family welfare fertility rate growth of population growth rate Gujarat Haryana higher Himachal Pradesh improvement increase in population industrial infant mortality investment Japan Karnataka Kerala labour force lakhs living Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Malthus Malthusian Malthusian theory married method million mortality rate Neo-Malthusians number of children optimum population optimum theory Orissa percentage period population growth population increase problem production programme proportion Rajasthan rate in India rate of population reduce registration rural areas sector sex ratio social Sri Lanka Survey Table Tamil Nadu theory of population thousand tion total population towns trend urban areas urban population Uttar Pradesh West Bengal widow women