Here are entered works on the theory that the initial effect of modernization in human societies is a growing margin of births over deaths and an accelerating rate of population growth, and that at a later stage of socioeconomic development the size of the family is reduced by birth control and the birth rate falls, eventually reducing the rate of population growth.
Here are entered works on demography as a branch of learning. This heading may be divided geographically for works on this branch of learning in a specific place. Works on the demographic conditions of particular countries, regions, cities, etc., are entered under the name of the place subdivided by Population. --subdivision Population under names of countries, cities, etc.