Publisher's Synopsis
Since the 18th century there has been a steady decline in mortality in the West, and this has had a profound effect on the growth rate of the population, and its age profile, in the developed countries.;This study of the causes and implications of this phenomenon offers, firstly, a new unified interpretation of the mortality patterns of industrializing countries over the past three centuries and, secondly, a detailed analysis of the repercussions of this new approach on projections of the structure and size of the global population in the future.
