Küresel Bir Süreç Olarak Demografik Dönüşüm: Mekânsal Bir Değerlendirme

Abstract

Decisive declines in fertility levels over the last century enable us to understand demographic transition as a global process, while demographic transition theory helps us to explain worldwide fertility and mortality change in light of Europe's historical experience. Declines in mortality are an early driving force in declines in fertility and/or overall demographic transition. However, significant differences can be seen in the timing of responses to this mortality decline and between earlier and later transitions in the characteristics of developing and undeveloped regions. This study, based largely on revised 2008 United Nations population data, seeks to explore the patterns of regionalisation of fertility transitions within specific countries, with reference to Turkey, as well as the spatial mechanisms of demographic transition worldwide. The basic profiles of demographic transition within both countries and continents are explored in terms of crude birth rates, crude death rates, and natural growth rates

Keywords

• demographic transition
• fertility
• mortality
• population geography
• demography