3). We have constructed a model of the demographic transition and its relationship to economic growth using the key indicator variables log GDP per capita, child mortality and total fertility rate.

Demographic ... population growth in the post-1950s owing to a sharp decline in the mortality rate. In line with Malthusian population theory (Stage I of the Population Transition Model), the ...

In this Economic Letter we use the macroeconomic model of Carvalho, Ferrero, and Nechio (2016) to assess how this demographic transition—people living longer and population growth rates declining—has ...

Kenya’s population has doubled over the last 25 years, to about 40 million people, and rapid population growth is set to continue ... are also in the middle of this demographic transition, benefitting ...

The world is in the midst of a major demographic transition ... model containing demographics calibrated to the "medium variant" of the United Nations population projections. We find that population ...

Though improved in many ways since then, essential features of the demographic transition model remain simple and well-known, as shown in the illustration below. Economic growth drove ...

We were then taught that a major challenge to economic development [of then East Pakistan] was its high population growth ... to the classical demographic transition model as described above.

and the other is the extraordinary demographic transition since China implemented the one-child policy in 1979. The double transition has shaped China’s extraordinary growth model, especially after ...

Alphaville’s emphasis below: Population growth and age structure change dramatically as countries transition ... (2003) label this growth take-off the demographic dividend.