After reading this article you will learn about factors affecting and causes of decline of mortality rates. Factors Affecting Mortality: Mortality or death is affected by a variety of factors. They may be biological, physiological, environmental, etc. From the demographic view point, mortality is related to the age and sex of an individual. There is infant mortality, mortality of woman [...]
After reading this article you will learn about:- 1. Meaning of Demography 2. Definitions of Demography 3. Scope 4. Importance. Meaning of Demography: The word 'Demography' is a combination of two Greek words, 'Demos' meaning people and 'Graphy' meaning science. Thus demography is the science of people. In the middle of the nineteenth century in 1855, the word 'Demography' was [...]
After reading this article you will learn about the relation of demography with other sciences. 1. Sociology: Demography is a science related with population. It studies different aspects of population like its size, density, effects of birth rate, death rate, migration, etc. Sociology is the study of social activities of man and social relations formed out of that. There are [...]