Managing Population Numbers

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Title:	Managing Population Numbers
Author:	Sadie, J.L.
Year:	1975
Periodical:	Zambezia
Volume:	4
Issue:	1
Period:	December
Pages:	11-18
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Zimbabwe South Africa
Subjects:	demographic change Miscellaneous (i.e. Demography, Refugees, Sports)
External link:	https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03790622_385
Abstract:	This discussion of the management of population numbers Is concerned with the limitation of growth, with reference to the populations of Rhodesia and the Republic of South Africa. If the observed tendencies in respect of fertility, mortality and immigration in South Africa, and the rates of natural increase in Rhodesia were to be continued to the and of the 20th century, over the 26 years following 1974 the numerical ration of Africans to White will rise from 4,1 to 5,4: 1 in South Africa and from 22 to 41:1 in Rhodesia. The minority groups will become relatively smaller minorities, the majority groups bigger majorities In Rhodesia and South Africa there are all the demographic and economic trends and phenomena obtaining in the world as a whole, and in particular the familiar inverse relationship between the rate of population growth and the ability to sustain economic development and standards of living. Those who can least affor it have the largest families. It is the prime objective of demographic management to change this picture. Notes, tables.