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Demography
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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.
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Here are entered works on the study of the determinants of the number, size, and composition of families.
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-- See Also the narrower term Mortality
--subdivision Mortality under individual diseases and types of diseases, classes of persons, and ethnic groups for works that list or discuss the number of deaths during a given time due to a particular cause or occurring in a particular group, e.g. Cancer--Mortality; Indians of North America--Mortality
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Here are entered works on the characteristics of human populations, especially with reference to the size and density, growth, distribution, migration, and vital statistics, and the effect of these on social and economic conditions.
--subdivision Population under names of countries, cities, etc., and under ethnic groups
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--subdivision Casualties--Statistics under individual wars, e.g. World War, 1939-1945--Casualties--Statistics; and subdivision Statistics, Vital under names of countries, cities, etc. and under ethnic groups for compilations of birth, marriage, and death statistics
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