Population Growth

Features a collection of essays that analyze modern trends in world population. This book includes comprehensive discussions of population theory, analyses of population trends, and prospects in the United States and surveys of population trends in other major areas of the world.

Ronald Freedman

Introduction; 1: The Population of The World: Recent Trends and Prospects; 2: The Demographic Transition: From High to Low Birth Rates and Death Rates; 3: How A Population ages or Grows Younger; 4: Population and Economic Growth; 5: World Urbanization: Trends and Prospects; 6: Taking an Inventory of 180 Million People: The U. S. Census; 7: Longevity and Mortality in the American Population; 8: The Fertility of the American Population; 9: Internal Migration and Population Redistribution in the United States; 10: The Growth of The American Population; 11: Population Trends in Newly Developing Countries; 12: Population and Family-Planning Programs in Newly Developing Countries; 13: The Population of Latin America; 14: The Population of India; 15: The Population of Africa; 16: The Population of Japan; 17: The Population of Communist China; 18: The Population of the Soviet Union; 19: The Population of Europe