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Demography is the statistical study of living populations. It can be a very general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic living population, that is, one that changes over time or space. It encompasses the study of the size, structure, and distribution of these populations, and spatial and/or temporal changes in them in response to birth, migration, aging and death. Formal demography limits its object of study to the measurement of populations processes, while the broader field of social demography population studies also analyze the relationships between economic, social, cultural and biological processes influencing a population.
General works
[edit]- An Essay on the Principle of Population, 1798 by Thomas Malthus
- Two Lectures on the Checks to Population, 1833 by William Forster Lloyd
- The Law of Population: Its Consequences, and Its Bearing upon Human Conduct and Morals, 1877 by Annie Besant
- "The Law of Human Increase" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (November 1882)
- "The Problem of Population" in Popular Science Monthly, 25 (September 1884)
- "Acclimatization" in Popular Science Monthly, 28 (February 1886)
- "The Value of Statistics" in Popular Science Monthly, 39 (August 1891)
- "The Population of the Earth" in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (January 1892)
- "Urban and Rural Life" in Popular Science Monthly, 68 (March 1906)
- Proclamation 6366, 1991 by George Herbert Walker Bush (World Population Awareness Week)
National demography
[edit]France
[edit]United Kingdom
[edit]- "The Population of London," in The New York Times, September 1, 1901.
United States
[edit]- Portal:United States Census Bureau
- "The African in the United States" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (February 1883)
- "Changes in New England Population" in Popular Science Monthly, 23 (August 1883)
- "The Decline of Rural New England" in Popular Science Monthly, 38 (January 1891)
- "Lessons from the Census I" in Popular Science Monthly, 39 (October 1891)
- "Lessons from the Census II" in Popular Science Monthly, 39 (October 1891)
- "Lessons from the Census II" in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (November 1891)
- "Lessons from the Census III" in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (January 1892)
- "Lessons from the Census IV" in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (February 1892)
- "Lessons from the Census V" in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (March 1892)
- "Lessons from the Census VI" in Popular Science Monthly, 40 (April 1892)
- "Lessons from the Census VII" in Popular Science Monthly, 41 (August 1892)
- "Lessons from the Census VIII" in Popular Science Monthly, 41 (October 1892)
- "The Foreign Element in American Civilization" in Popular Science Monthly, 52 (January 1898)
- Presidential Memorandum on Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning, 2003 by George Walker Bush
- Presidential Memo - Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning, 2009 by Barack Obama
Racial demography
[edit]- "Increase and Movement of the Colored Population I" in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (September 1881)
- "Increase and Movement of the Colored Population II" in Popular Science Monthly, 19 (October 1881)
- "The African in the United States" in Popular Science Monthly, 22 (February 1883)
- "Are We to Become Africanized?" in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (June 1885)
Regional demography
[edit]- "The Decline of Rural New England" in Popular Science Monthly, 38 (January 1891)
- "The Decrease of Rural Population" in Popular Science Monthly, 42 (March 1893)
Immigration
[edit]- "Has Immigration Increased Population?" by in Popular Science Monthly, 48 (December 1895)
- "Immigration and Crime" by in Popular Science Monthly, 49 (September 1896)
Population control
[edit]- "The Celibate Women of To-day" in Popular Science Monthly, 86 (June 1915)
- Population and Birth-Control, 1917 symposium edited by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul
- Presidential Memorandum on Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning, 2003 by George Walker Bush
- Presidential Memo - Mexico City Policy and Assistance for Voluntary Population Planning, 2009 by Barack Obama
Reference
[edit]- "Demography," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Theories of Population," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)