Taiwan’s Demographic Destiny: Marriage Market and Aged Dependency Implications for the Twenty-First Century

Dudley L. Poston () and Li Zhang
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Dudley L. Poston: Texas A&M University, Department of Sociology
Li Zhang: China University of Political Science and Law

Chapter Chapter 16 in The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies, 2014, pp 265-280 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The phrase “demography is destiny” means that population processes and their effects on the changing composition of their members have important impacts on the future society. Demography is destiny precisely because once the demographic shifts and changes have occurred, the future is set. Based on the demographic events that have occurred, astute observers, sometimes demographers themselves, are able to figure out what will happen in the future, or at least what might happen in the future, before the events of the future actually occur.

Keywords: Total Fertility Rate; Fertility Transition; Fertility Reduction; Baby Girl; Marriage Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-7445-2_16

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