Demography : a very short introduction / Sarah Harper.
The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within which that life is lived; the person'...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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[Oxford] :
Oxford University Press,
[2018]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Very short introductions ;
565. |
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| Online Access: | Oxford Very Short Introductions |
| Summary: | The generation into which each person is born, the demographic composition of that cohort, and its relation to those born at the same time in other places influences not only a person's life chances, but also the economic and political structures within which that life is lived; the person's access to social and natural resources (food, water, education, jobs, sexual partners); and even the length of that person's life. Demography, literally the study of people, addresses the size, distribution, composition, and density of populations, and considers the impact the drivers which mediate these will have on both individual lives and the changing structure of human populations. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 132 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191792721 0198725736 9780191792724 9780198725732 |