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How the Age Distribution of a Human Population is Determined

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This analysis of age distribution will be restncted to closed populations of human females; restricted to closed populations because to condsider the effects of migration would be unduly eomphcated; restncted to human populations because the author is a demographer rather than a biologist; and restricted to females because differences in age composition and in age at parenthood between the sexes make a combined treatment awkward. If data were equally availa. ble, a completely similar analysis could be made for males, with only one ma)’or reservation: The special effects of war mortality on males of military age would require special analysis.

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  1. Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    David P. Smith

  2. Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA

    Nathan Keyfitz

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  1. University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

    Kenneth W. Wachter

  2. School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Paris, France

    Hervé Le Bras

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Smith, D.P., Keyfitz, N. (2013). How the Age Distribution of a Human Population is Determined. In: Wachter, K., Le Bras, H. (eds) Mathematical Demography. Demographic Research Monographs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35858-6_19

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