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Introduction
The basic components of population change
- Fertility
  - Biological factors affecting human fertility
  - Contraception
  - Abortion
  - Sterilization
- Mortality
  - The epidemiologic transition
  - Infant mortality
  - Infanticide
  - Mortality among the elderly
- Marriage
- Migration
  - Early human migrations
  - Modern mass migrations
  - Forced migrations
  - Internal migrations
- Natural increase and population growth
  - Population growth
  - Population “momentum”
Population composition
- Age distribution
- Sex ratio
- Ethnic or racial composition
- Geographical distribution and urbanization
Population theories
- Population theories in antiquity
- Mercantilism and the idea of progress
- Physiocrats and the origins of demography
- Utopian views
- Malthus and his successors
- Marx, Lenin, and their followers
- The Darwinian tradition
- Theory of the demographic transition
Trends in world population
- The developing countries since 1950
- The industrialized countries since 1950
Population projections

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