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Summary

The new edition of this standard history of world population has been updated to include projections to the year 2050. It includes the latest data on fertility and infant mortality and a new section on migration has been added. The discussion of America is completely rewritten to give a fuller view of the past, including reference to the slave trade, and coverage of China has been expanded. Includes new sections on migration - an emerging issue for rich and poor countries alike - and the impact of HIV. Provides the latest data on fertility and infant mortality. Discussion of America is completely rewritten to give a fuller view of the past, including reference to the slave trade, and coverage of China has been expanded. Updates the quantitative material and bibliography.

Author Biography

Massimo Livi-Bacci is Professor of Demography at the University of Florence. He has been President of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population. He has published extensively on contemporary demography as well as on the history of population, and has taught or held fellowships at universities all over the world, including the Collège de France, the Colegio de México, Princeton University of California at Berkeley, and Brown University, Providence, RI. His books include Population and Nutrition (1991), The Population of Europe. A History (1999), and Conquista. The Destruction of American Indios (in Italian; 2005).

List of Figures

viii

List of Tables

xii

Preface

xiv

1 The Space and Strategy of Demographic Growth

(28)

1 Humans and Animals

(4)

2 Divide and Multiply

(2)

3 Jacopo Bichi and Domenica Del Buono, Jean Guyon and Mathurine Robin

(2)

4 Reproduction and Survival

(8)

5 The Space of Growth

(3)

6 Environmental Constraints

(5)

7 A Few Figures

(4)

2 Demographic Growth: Between Choice and Constraint

(41)

1 Constraint, Choice, Adaptation

(2)

2 From Hunters to Farmers: The Neolithic Demographic Transition

(7)

3 Black Death and Demographic Decline in Europe

(5)

4 The Tragedy of the American Indios: Old Microbes and New Populations

(6)

5 Africa, America, and the Slave Trade

(5)

6 The French Canadians: A Demographic Success Story

(4)

7 Ireland and Japan: Two Islands, Two Histories

(5)

8 On the Threshold of the Contemporary World: China and Europe

(7)

3 Land, Labor, and Population

(28)

1 Diminishing Returns and Demographic Growth

(4)

2 Historical Confirmations

(6)

3 Demographic Pressure and Economic Development

(3)

4 More on Demographic Pressure and Development: Examples from the Stone Age to the Present Day

(3)

5 Space, Land, and Development

(6)

6 Population Size and Prosperity

(3)

7 Increasing or Decreasing Returns?

(3)

4 Toward Order and Efficiency: The Recent Demography of Europe and the Developed World

(40)

1 From Waste to Economy

(5)

2 From Disorder to Order: The Lengthening of Life

103

(6)

3 From High to Low Fertility

109

(7)

4 European Emigration: A Unique Phenomenon

116

(6)

5 A Summing Up: The Results of the Transition

122

(1)

6 Theoretical Considerations on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth

123

(4)

7 More on the Relationship between Demographic and Economic Growth: Empirical Observations

127

(11)

5 The Populations of Poor Countries

138

(45)

1 An Extraordinary Phase

138

(5)

2 The Conditions of Survival

143

(7)

3 A Brief Geography of Fertility

150

(6)

4 The Conditions and Prospects for Fertility Decline and Demographic Policy

156

(6)

5 India and China

162

(9)

6 Fertilia and Sterilia

171

(4)

7 Explaining a Paradox

175

(8)

6 The Future

183

(38)

1 Population and Self-Regulation

183

(2)

2 The Numbers of the Future

185

(6)

3 The North—South Divide and International Migration

191

(5)

4 On Sustainability of Extended Survival

196

(9)

5 The Moving Limits

205

(4)

6 The Emerging Limits: Resources

209

(4)

7 The Emerging Limits: Environment

213

(3)

8 Calculations and Values

216

(5)

Notes

221

(39)

Select Bibliography

260

(4)

Index

264

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