Historical demography

Historical demography is the quantitative study of human population in the past. It is concerned with population size, with the three basic components of population change (fertility, mortality, and migration), and with population characteristics related to those components, such as marriage, socioeconomic status, and the configuration of families.

This articles deals with methodology. For the study of population in different parts of the world see Demographic history.
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