Download or read book British Population in the Twentieth Century written by N. L. Tranter and published by Palgrave. This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most striking features of the demography of twentieth century Britain and its constituent countries has been the persistence of rates of population growth far lower than those of the nineteenth century. By the 1980s even the absolute size of the population had begun to decline. Why has this happened? And why have falling rates of population growth been accompanied by equally dramatic changes in the geography of human residence? In an attempt to answer these questions, the book traces the evolution of trends in levels of fertility, mortality and migration and considers the nature of the forces responsible for these trends.