Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World Podcast
1) 02. Numbering the people: the Census, Vital Registration and Population Registers
Professor David Coleman gives the second lecture on Demographics, where he looks at different ways in which governments and demographers have collected population data. Creative Commons Attribution-N...Show More
02. Numbering the people: the Census, Vital Registration and Population Registers
51:12 | Oct 26th, 2012
2) 01. Demographic Challenges for the 21st Century
Professor David Coleman gives the first lecture in his Demographic Trends and Problems of the Modern World series. He describes the challenges such as of a world population of 7 billion and how demogr...Show More
3) 11. Does Government belong in the bedroom? (Slides)
There are many examples, from the ancient world to Nazi Germany, of attempts to protect or to increase the birth rate and hence population size. Slides to accompany Prof David Coleman's talk on birth ...Show More
4) 11. Does Government belong in the bedroom?
There are many examples, from the ancient world to Nazi Germany, of attempts to protect or to increase the birth rate and hence population size. Slides to accompany Prof David Coleman's talk on birth ...Show More
5) 10. Who's afraid of population decline? (Slides)
Fear of population decline has haunted states ever since states existed. Population size was the basis of the power, security and prosperity of any political entity. Slides to accompany Professor Davi...Show More
6) 10. Who's afraid of population decline?
Fear of population decline has haunted states ever since states existed. Population size was the basis of the power, security and prosperity of any political entity. Slides to accompany Professor Davi...Show More
7) 09. Bringing down the birth rate - family planning in the developing world (Slides)
Traditionally, high birth rates were high. But as they were balanced by high death rates, population growth rates were usually very low. Prof David Coleman looks at family planning in the developing w...Show More
8) 09. Bringing down the birth rate - family planning in the developing world
Traditionally, high birth rates were high. But as they were balanced by high death rates, population growth rates were usually very low. Prof David Coleman looks at family planning in the developing w...Show More
09. Bringing down the birth rate - family planning in the developing world
54:47 | Jul 12th, 2012
9) 08. After the demographic transition in the developing world (Slides)
Fertility in all but 12 countries in the world is now falling. Where will it stop? In this talk, Prof David Coleman looks at the demographic transition in the developing world. Conventionally the demo...Show More
10) 08. After the demographic transition in the developing world
Fertility in all but 12 countries in the world is now falling. Where will it stop? In this talk, Prof David Coleman looks at the demographic transition in the developing world. Conventionally the demo...Show More