Essays on Demographic Transition

The demographic transition model and how it was developed by the demographers

Demographic transition is a model describing change in population over a particular period and it is based on two demographic characteristics; birth rates and death rates. The model was developed by Warren Thomson, an American demographer, after observing experimented changes of various countries’ birth rates and death rates over the last two decades (Wilson, 2007).

Four phases of demographic transition model

The four phases of demographic transition are; pre-transition, early transition, late transition, and post transition. During the pre-transition phase, population growth is described to be low. Crude death rates are higher than crude birth rates and so population is declining. During the early transition ...

India’s Economy and Population

Introduction India exists as a peninsula in South Asia and it is surrounded by various water bodies like the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. The neighboring countries along the Indian border are China, Pakistan, Nepal, Burma, and Bhutan. The land size of the country is approximately 3,287,263 sq.km, and it is ranked 7th among the largest countries in the world (India Location para 2). India’s population is 1.33 billion, and 50% of this population comprises people aged below 25 years. The number of males is slightly higher than females, where sex ratio between males and ...

The different regions across the globe exhibit a great level of distinction in factors of production for which there is a huge difference in the costs of production within these regions, hence, the difference in economic growth and development across these regions. The understanding of the economic, spatial change is linked to the overall processes of transformation of capitalist markets and institutions, and productions systems due to the recognition of the contribution of various locations of economic activity. The regional economic performance has been pegged on a number of factors across the economy. First, is the use of knowledge ...

Human population has experienced explosive growth over the recent decades. Population dynamics is a multifaceted aspect that encompasses not only population size, growth and density, but also the peculiarities of urbanization and migration taking into account such variables as age and sex (de Sherbinin et al., 2007). Lam, (2011) points out that demographic change is closely related to the three aspects, namely urbanization, fertility decline, and investment in children. “The growth of the world population goes hand in hand with global urbanisation: while around the year 1950 less than 30% of people lived in the cities, this proportion has ...