ABSTRACT
Is there such a thing as small island demography? Within the modern Third World context, it has sometimes been suggested that small islands have relatively low fertility, low mortality and high rates of migration to developed countries. This does seem to accord with recent demographic experience (Barbados, Jamaica, Trinidad, Mauritius, Fiji, Singapore spring readily to mind), and in the case of fertility, at least, this has been empirically confirmed (Mauldin and Berelson 1978).
