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Population Growth and Educational Development

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  • B. Alfred Liu

    (Division of Teacher Education, City University of New York)

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Educational development of a country, as meas ured by its adult literacy rate and school enrollment ratio, is found to be associated with certain demographic characteristics. It is shown that those countries most advanced educationally tend to have lower rates of population growth; specifically they have low or moderate birth rates which are in falling trends since 1945. Countries least advanced educationally are observed to have higher rates of population growth; their birth rates, already high, are tending to rise further. Countries at intermediate levels of educational development also show inter mediate characteristics of demographic growth. Practical con sequences of these disparities are pointed out with respect to the proportion of a country's population in school-going ages and to the relative burden of public educational expenditure on the national economy. The example of India is cited as illustration. Some guidelines and targets for a country's edu cational development are suggested by the author.

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  • B. Alfred Liu, 1967. "Population Growth and Educational Development," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 369(1), pages 109-120, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:anname:v:369:y:1967:i:1:p:109-120
    DOI: 10.1177/000271626736900111
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