Reflections on the demographic conditions needed to establish a U.S. stationary population growth

Bibliographic Data

ID7979981
AuthorsTomas Frejka (corresponding author)
Year1968
Volume22
Issue3
Pages379-397
Publication date1968-11-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePopulation Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-4728 • E-ISSN: 1477-4747
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00324728.1968.10404946
PMID22091654
OpenAlexW2056909701
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited1

It is assumed that in the long run U.S. population growth will have to cease, as otherwise life will become physically impossible. Various hypothetical possibilities of achieving such a type of development are investigated. Alternatives of reproduction rate trends are considered in terms of alternatives of interactions of assumed age-specific fertility and mortality trends and these are computed and evaluated. The various computations then indicate the nature of childbearing attitudes and behaviour, which the 'average population' would have to adopt in order to achieve the desired stationary population growth after a certain period of time. On the other hand the results presented in the paper also indicate that a certain population growth (of the order of 30-50%) and change in age structure is inevitable in the coming 5-10 decades given the initial childbearing behaviour

Age structure · Biology · Birth rate · Economics · Family planning · Fertility · Order (exchange) · Population · Population growth · Reproduction · Research methodology · Sociology · Total fertility rate · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Demography · Ecology · Economic Growth and Productivity · Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management

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