Part 1: A demographic perspective -- Introduction to demography -- Global population trends -- Demographic perspectives -- Demographic data -- Part 2: Population processes -- The health and mortality transition -- The fertility transition -- The migration transition -- Part 3: Population structure and characteristics -- The age transition -- The urban transition -- The family and household transition -- Part 4: Using the demographic perspective -- Population and the environment -- Coping with demographic change -- Population data for the world 2010, keyed to figure 2.1

1. Population