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Childhood mortality in Central Spain, 1790–1960: changes in the course of demographic modernization

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2000

DIEGO RAMIRO FARIÑAS  and
ALBERTO SANZ GIMENO
DIEGO RAMIRO FARIÑAS
Affiliation:
Marie Curie Fellow, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, University of Cambridge
ALBERTO SANZ GIMENO
Affiliation:
Departamento de Sociología II (Población y Ecología Humana), Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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Abstract

The struggle against death is one of the main themes in human history. Mortality as it declined in recent times, became a central factor behind population growth. In this context, childhood mortality was the key, not only because deaths at these young ages often constituted more than half of all deaths, but also because any decrease in it brought about fundamental changes in the age structure and the size of the population and in fertility.

Type
Research Article
Information
Continuity and Change , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , September 2000 , pp. 235 - 267
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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