This topic focuses on a number of core questions relating to the causes and consequences of changes in population growth, migration, fertility, and mortality and population structure. The major theories advanced to explain these demographic changes are critically examined and related to wider economic and social change. There is an approximately equal division of attention between major issues relating more specifically to developing countries and those relating to industrialised societies. A section of the topic is devoted to a consideration of population policies and population-development issues and some advanced methods of demographic analysis with respect to population movement.
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