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Introduction

In: Fertility, Mortality and Migration in SubSaharan Africa

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  • Veijo Notkola

    (Interview and Research Services Statistics)

  • Harri Siiskonen

    (University of Joensuu)

Abstract

The first reports about the population development of SubSaharan Africa were published at the end of the 1940s (Kuczynski, 1948, 1949). During the 1960s the Office of Population Research at Princeton University produced demographic estimates for tropical Africa (Brass et al., 1968). It was supposed that due to mortality decline, population growth would increase in tropical Africa (Coale, 1968: 179–86; Martin et al., 1993: 1–7). In the 1970s and 1980s the population probably increased about 2–3 per cent per year in tropical Africa and in SubSaharan Africa and the same kind of development is probably going to continue. According to United Nations projections, the population growth rates will not decline in the near future in SubSaharan Africa (McNicoll, 1992: 333–40). The social and economic population problems are going to be major issues in the future in Africa and in particular in SubSaharan Africa. Poverty, high infant and childhood mortality and other social and economic problems, including environmental issues, will be difficult problems in SubSaharan Africa.

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  • Veijo Notkola & Harri Siiskonen, 2000. "Introduction," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Fertility, Mortality and Migration in SubSaharan Africa, chapter 1, pages 1-6, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-333-98134-4_1
    DOI: 10.1057/9780333981344_1
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