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Demography is the statistical study of human population It
can be a-general science that can be applied to any kind of dynamic
population, that is, one that changed over
(1)______ the time or space. It encompasses the study of the size,
(2)______ structure and distribution of populations, and spatial
or temporal changes in them in response to birth, death, migration and
aging. Human demography is the most well known discipline of
demography, and typically what people refer when
(3)______ using the term demography. Demographic analysis can be
applied to whole societies or to groups defined by criterion such as
education, nationality, religion and ethnicity.
(4)______ In academia, demography is often
regarded as a branch of either economy or sociology. Formal demography
(5)______ limits its object of study to
the measurement of populations processes, when the more broad field of social
demography
(6)______ studies also analyze the relationships
between economic, social, cultural and biological processes influencing on
(7)______ a
population. Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is regarded as the "father
of demography" for his economic analysis of social organization
which produced the first scientific and theoretical work on population,
development, and group dynamics. At the end of the 18th century, Thomas
Malthus concluded that, if unchecked, populations would be subject to
exponential growth. He feared that population growth would intend to outstrip
growth in food
(8)______ production, leading to ever increased famine and
poverty; he
(9)______ is seen as the intellectual father of ideas of
overpopulation and the limits for growth. Later more sophisticated and
realistic
(10)______ models were presented by Benjamin Gompertz and
Verhulst.