Demography

Demography is the study of human population dynamics. It encompasses the study of the size, structure and distribution of populations, and how populations change over time due to births, deaths, migration and ageing. Demographic analysis can relate to whole societies or to groups defined by criteria such as education, nationality, religion and ethnicity.

Further reading

• Paul R. Ehrlich (1968), The Population Bomb
• Phillip Longman (2004), The Empty Cradle: how falling birth rates threaten global prosperity and what to do about it