ABSTRACT

This chapter deals with four key areas of population dynamics: density, urbanization, marriage and divorce, and family planning. The density rankings reflect dispersion and concentration of population within national borders. Population density is the most common indicator of the relation of population to available land. However, overall density figures obscure unequal distribusince overall density figures obscure unequal distribution within countries, this ranking should be read in light of the ranking for density in agricultural areas. The old demographic concept of living space perhaps space perhaps may be expressed best through ranking of population be expressed best through ranking of population density in agricultural areas. The concept of household is based on the arrangements made by persons, either individually or in individually or in groups, for providing themselves with food or other themselves with food or of living.