The Demographic Transition in the Netherlands

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5074580
AutoresWilliam Petersen (autor de correspondencia)
Año1960
Volumen25
Número3
Páginas334
Fecha de publicación1960-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/2092079
OpenAlexW2061770765
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas36

The population of a developing area is divided into 3 stages: 1) static population with high levels of fertility and mortality; 2) a period of falling mortality and constant fertility with rapid population growth; and 3) static population at balanced levels of birth and death control. In the Netherlands modernization was achieved by allowing only one person from a farm/household to marry and have children. Joint households included unmarried family members. With the 19th century popularity of the nuclear family came a sense of parental responsibility and a desire to limit family size. Since the beginning of the modern era the Netherlands has experienced an increase in population. Population growth was not affected by net migration. Before the last decades of the 19th century the decline in mortality was not sufficient to account for the increase in numbers. Following the breakdown of institutional and moral inhibitions to procreation in the 19th century there was a rise in fertility

Biology · Demographic economics · Demographic transition · Economics · Fertility · Geography · Population · Sociology · Transition (genetics · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management