Demography history
What is demography in history?
Demography is the statistical study of human populations.
Demography examines the size, structure, and movements of populations over space and time.
It uses methods from history, economics, anthropology, sociology, and other fields..
Who discovered demography?
It is, however, generally accepted that demography originated in the middle of the 17th century with the English statistician, John Graunt, as its founder.
It may even be argued that demography has an exact date of birth, 27 February 1662, when Graunt's Observations were first published..
Demographic history is the reconstructed record of human population in the past. Given the lack of population records prior to the 1950s, there are many gaps in our record of demographic history. Historical demographers must make do with estimates, models and extrapolations.
Historical demography is a social science history. It is distinguished from other branches of history by its explicit use of concepts and tools derived from a
Historical population of the world
Estimating the ancestral population of anatomically modern humans
Asia
The Indian population was about 100 million in 1500. Under the Mughal Empire
Early modern Europe
The population of early modern Europe, circa 1600 is estimated as follows (per Karl Julius Beloch
See also
• Historical demography, Methodology and sources• Classical demography
Further reading
• Cipolla, Carlo M
The demographic history of Montenegro can be shown through census results and official documents which mention demographic composition.
This is a demographic history of Quebec chronicling the evolution of the non-indigenous population in Quebec.
This article presents the demographic history of Romania through census results.
See Demographics of Romania for a more detailed overview of the country's present-day demographics.
This article presents the demographic history of Serbia through census results.
See Demographics of Serbia for a more detailed overview of the current demographics from 2011 census.
Vojvodina's demographic history reflects its rich history and its former location at the border of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires and at the confluence of various peoples, making it a hotbed of invasion, colonization, and assimilation processes.
Currently there are more than 25 ethnic groups living in Vojvodina and six official languages.
