ANTEDATING OF "ZERO POPULATION GROWTH"

[Shapiro, Fred]

zero population growth (OED 1967)

1955 _Population Studies_ IX. 51 (JSTOR)  It is true that the late stages of demographic transitions have usually been represented as involving close to zero population growth, with birth and death rates approximately stabilized at "low" levels.

Fred Shapiro

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