ANTEDATING OF "ZERO POPULATION GROWTH"

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The following is from Google-Books. I've found that dating thre is not
always reliable (for example, cites to journals appear to be dated by the
date the journal originated, not the date of the specific isse), But this
one looks good to me, subject of course to checking the originoal.
    New Technical Books - Page
405<http://books.google.com/books?id=OyAbAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22zero+population+growth%22+date:1905-1920&num=100&as_brr=0>
 by New York Public Library -
Engineering<http://books.google.com/books?q=+subject:%22Engineering%22&num=100&as_brr=0>-
1916 Reproductive
value, with applications to migration, contraception, and zero population
growth. Understanding population characteristics. ... Snippet view - About
this book<http://books.google.com/books?id=OyAbAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22zero+population+growth%22+date:1905-1920&num=100&as_brr=0>-
Add
to my library<http://books.google.com/books?op=add&sig=KKq3FLJGELMIUjzwaarw3M4snYA&as_list=BDSEkJUoQociU0fTU18rpARoUT0F9oohE93hj-b5w9BB360nde2U&id=OyAbAAAAMAAJ&continue=http://books.google.com/books%3Fnum%3D100%26as_brr%3D0%26q%3D%2522zero%2Bpopulation%2Bgrowth%2522%2Bdate:1905-1920%26hl%3Den>
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More editions<http://books.google.com/books?q=editions:0UFhmnLFziAlU3Q3f7&id=OyAbAAAAMAAJ>
 Ken Spector



On Nov 18, 2007 8:51 PM, Shapiro, Fred <Fred.Shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:

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> zero population growth (OED 1967)
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> 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.
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> Fred Shapiro
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