tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2532313388110978122.post8996694200083901077..comments2023-10-28T00:47:18.069-07:00Comments on Weeks Population: More on the Latest Census Bureau Population ProjectionsJohn Weekshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04069566137451684355noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2532313388110978122.post-28350065679194775942013-01-09T15:32:18.552-08:002013-01-09T15:32:18.552-08:00Caveats printed in the article or not, any time po...Caveats printed in the article or not, any time population trends make a front page story, it's a win for demographers everywhere. (Not so bad for public policy discussions, either.) ;)<br /><br />Nice work!B. Jaroszhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01158510806356052260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2532313388110978122.post-92044373825210877922013-01-08T20:54:48.396-08:002013-01-08T20:54:48.396-08:00Palestine (meaning in the geographic sense the are...Palestine (meaning in the geographic sense the area that includes Gaza, West Bank, and Israel) is an outlier demographically. Israel has the highest fertility rate of any developed nation, and a large fraction of people in the Gaza Strip and West Bank are officially refugees. It is what Courbage and Todd (2011) call "the demography of combat."John Weekshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04069566137451684355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2532313388110978122.post-42486315824124387792013-01-07T22:52:30.579-08:002013-01-07T22:52:30.579-08:00Good points. How does this relate to somewhere lik...Good points. How does this relate to somewhere like Gaza, though, which has a poor economy and very high unemployment, almost no land to develop, and a very high birthrate?<br /><br />Is this related to women's literacy? I recall reading that that is one of the other main determinants of TFR. <br />Abu Daoudhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18399746942963002389noreply@blogger.com