• Frontmatter,
• Preface,
• Contents,
• List of Figures. List of Tables,
• CHAPTER 1. Fertility, Mortality, and Age Distributions: Introduction,
• CHAPTER 2. The Stable Population,
• CHAPTER 3. Convergence of a Population to the Stable Form,
• CHAPTER 4. Population with Fertility that Changes at a Constant Rate,
• CHAPTER 5. Birth Sequences and Age Distributions with Changing Mortality,
• CHAPTER 6. The Birth Sequence and the Age Distribution That Occur When Fertility Is Subject to Repetitive Fluctuations,
• CHAPTER 7. The Relation Between the Birth Sequence and Sequence of Fertility Schedules in Any Time Pattern Derived by Fourier Analysis,
• CHAPTER 8. Conclusion,
• GLOSSARY OF MOST SIGNIFICANT SYMBOLS,
• INDEX,

Although mathematical demography has traditionally studied the so-called stable population (fixed mortality and fertility schedules), Ansley Coale investigates now the dynamics of population growth and structure-the changing age composition of a population as birth and death rates fluctuate.
Originally published in 1972.
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