Malaysia's Demographic Transition

Rapid Development, Culture, and Politics

• Author(s): Richard Leete,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 222
• ISBN_10: 967653109X
  ISBN_13: 9789676531094
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , Medical / Reproductive Medicine & Technology , Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / Demography , Social Science / Abortion & Birth Control ,

Description:... It outlines the modern history of changes in Malaysia's population and the economic, social, political, and cultural context within which the changes have occurred. It gives a detailed analysis of the dimensions of the fertility transition that has occurred, at differing paces and to differing degrees, among the three major communities in the states of Peninsular Malaysia since independence in 1957. A study is also made of the mortality and fertility changes that have occurred among the main communities in the lesser developed states of Sabah and Sarawak.