The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

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Identifikator:: 1775636852

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-164018

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Author:: Knibbs, George Handley http://d-nb.info/gnd/1045010944

Title:: The shadow of the world's future, or The earth's population possibilities & the consequences of the present rate of increase of the earth's inhabitants

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Ernest Benn Limited

Year of publication:: (1928)

Scope:: 131 Seiten

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Chapter V. How population increases

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HOW POPULATION INCREASES 57 because it is virtually included in factor (v) above: it of course affects the rate of increase. An examination of these factors discloses at once that they are liable to be influenced in many ways. For example, in regard to (i), the effectiveness of the reproductive impulse is greatly influenced by social traditions and religious beliefs, etc. It is also limited by the standard-of-living assumed to be necessary, and by the common refusal to subordinate all the more immediate promptings involving expenditure, to the more remote issues of the development of families. In so far as the future is sacrified to the present, the possibility of population is liable to be hindered. Matters of this kind are, of course, all reflected in the social outlook of a people. For example, many French people in the near past regarded large families with disfavour, and the economic situation, on a limited view at least, and perhaps actually, appeared to justify the attitude. People who defer marriage, however, until every life-vicissitude appears to be amply provided for, create a tradition which tends greatly to limit the rapidity of increase in population. Favourable economic conditions tend, of course, to lessen the forces opposing marriage. A study of the correlation of the marriage, the birth, and the increase rates, with the production per head, for example, in Australia, from 1860 to 1923, affords unmistakable evidence of the economic reactions on the rate of increase.! The history of the United States of America supplies perhaps one of the best possible examples of the effect of social changes on the rate of population-increase. From 179o to 1860 there was nearly a constant rate of increase of about 3 per cent. per annum; see the table previously given. It has been pointed out by 1 See the Australian Commonwealth Year-Books, and also Mezron, Vol. V, No. 3, 1st Dec. 1925, article by G. H. Knibbs.

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