Demography

The demography (of the Greek demonstrations meaning people ) is the quantitative study of the Population S and their dynamic, starting from characteristics such as the Natalité, the Fécondité, the Mortalité, the Nuptialité (or Conjugalité) and the migration. The task of the demographers consists in analyzing the variations of these phenomena in time and space, according to the socio-economic and cultural mediums.

The demographers have recourse to various methods to explain the demographic phenomena. They draw in particular from related knowledge of disciplines, like the Sociologie, the economy, the Géographie and the Histoire, so that their interpretation is just possible. Demography thus exceeds largely the framework of the analysis Statistique and makes it possible to study the phenomena affecting the populations from the total point of view.

The increase in the World population, in particular since the Industrial revolution, had a series of important incidences on the evolution of the companies and the nations in the world, in particular constituting a brake with the development beyond of a certain threshold. Demography became thus an invaluable instrument with the service of the political of populations (in particular, those of birth-control for countries like the China), but also with the industrial relations policies of many countries, in particular for the systems of Social Security, having to hold account for their forecasts of the number of individuals per age group: young people, active population, pensioners, calculable thanks to birth rates, of mortality, fruitfulness inter alia.

More recently, demography is also used in many market research, targeted on profiles of increasingly precise consumers.

Important indices

study of a population per age

study of a population per sex

study of the birthrate and the mortality of a population

study of the migrations

Demography by areas and country

See too

External bond

  • International committee of Co-operation in national Research in Demography

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