Demography

Demography is the study of the change in the size, density, distriibution and composition of human populations over time, and includes analysis of such factors as birth rates and death rates, marriage and fertility, as well as emigration and immigration.

The term "demography" was coined in 1855 by a Belgian, Achille Guillard in his book, Elements de statistique humaine ou demographie comparee. In his terms the study included many aspects of humans including general movement and progress (including morals) in civilized countries. He used the vital statistics of birth, marriage, sickness and death from census and registration reports." Demography has come to have a wider meaning, and is now used for all statistical descriptions of human life conditions, including illnesses, socioeconomic indicators, and other aspects of living conditions - as long as the statistics refer to the numbers of individual people who exhibit the characteristic in question.

Demographics in Medicine and the allied health sciences

Demographic analysis is an integral part of epidemiology and in health policy. For example, currently there is a Global Burden of Disease project sponsored by the World Health Organization. (Projections of Global Mortality and Burden of Disease from 2002 to 2030 Mathers CD, Loncar D PLoS Medicine Vol. 3, No. 11, e442 doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.0030442 [1]

Historical demography

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Bibliography

History of Demography

• Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principle of Population (1st ed 1798) (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) ed by Donald Winch 1992 ISBN 9780521429726

Demographic techniques

• Donald T. Rowland. Demographic Methods and Concepts 2003 ISBN 9780198752639

Journals

• Demography
• Population Studies
• American Demographics, popular; focus on market research
• Demographic Research
• European Journal of Population

Asia-Pacific Population Journal

The Turkish Journal of Population Studies

ONLINE FREE RESOURCES

Bibliographic Searchable Database (1986-2000) from Princeton University: Population Index

Website of the Population Reference Bureau, USA: Population Reference Bureau