In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...

Demographic Research, Vol. 27 (JULY - DECEMBER 2012), pp. 299-338 (42 pages) BACKGROUND According to classic demographic transition theory, mortality change is the key factor that triggers a decline ...

Demographic Research, Vol. 44 (JANUARY - JUNE 2021), pp. 1115-1132 (20 pages) BACKGROUND The second demographic transition (SDT), which links ideational changes with demographic developments, is one ...

The trends of world population suggested that the more developed the economy and society is, the stronger is people's senses of realization of self-value and fostering better children, so the ...

Source: BlacknoseDace/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 It seems we are surrounded by a generation of singles. Therapy sessions, workshops, and the psychology literature are fixated on the ultimate ...

Population balance is the balance achieved between the number of births and deaths within a population. Crude Birth Rate (CBR): the number of live births each year per thousand of the population in an ...