In 1986, two Dutch researchers advanced a provocative hypothesis: many societies were undergoing a “Second Demographic Transition” that would lead to durably low birth rates and high degrees of ...

Demographic transition means shift from high birth rate and high death rate to low birth rate and low death rate. Demographers contend that demographic transition will have taken place when the birth ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 110, No. 20 (May 14, 2013), pp. 8045-8050 (6 pages) The demographic transition is an ongoing global phenomenon in ...

Demographic Research, Vol. 33 (JULY - DECEMBER 2015), pp. 1297-1332 (38 pages) BACKGROUND Several theories compete to explain the main drivers of urbanisation, past and present, in relation to both ...

Changes in the demographic makeup of populations are a significant factor contributing to the rise of singledom. In the wake of what researchers call the second demographic transition, fewer people ...

Low fertility is one of the most fundamental demographic challenges in modern society. Scholars have paid close attention to so-called “lowest-low fertility”, which refers to a designate situation ...