Unit DEMOGRAPHY
- Course
- Political sciences and international relations
- Study-unit Code
- GP003825
- Curriculum
- Relazioni internazionali
- Teacher
- Donatella Lanari
- Teachers
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- Donatella Lanari
- Hours
- 63 ore - Donatella Lanari
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- SECS-S/04
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian language.
International and Erasmus students are invited to attend lectures. References are available also in English. Written and oral exams for foreign students will be held in English. Students are invited to contact the professor to ask questions or simply hold a conversation by email or in person. - Contents
- Data sources. Population growth rate. Characteristics and dynamics of populations. Lexis scheme and life tables. Analysis of nuptiality, fertility. Mobility and migrations. Demographic forecasts. Demographic transition of developed and developing countries. Low fertility and population ageing in Italy. World population growth. International migrations.
- Reference texts
- 2006. C. BLANGIARDO, Elementi di Demografia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2006
or
2010. DE SANTIS, Demografia, Il Mulino, Bologna, 2010,
In addition some lecture notes will be available on-line in the Unistudium platform - Educational objectives
- The course aims at providing the necessary tools to analyse the main structural characteristics and dynamics of human populations and the differences in demographic behaviors between developed and developing countries.
By the end of the course, students will acquire a good knowledge of the issues covered and will be able to use the main tools for the measurement and analysis of demographic processes to solve basic demographic exercises and interpret the results. - Prerequisites
- None.
- Teaching methods
- Theoretical lectures and practical training by using Istat database and international datasets.
- Learning verification modality
- The exam includes a written test and an oral exam. The written test consists in solving 4-5 exercises of demographic analysis. The written test, which lasts two hours, is intended to verify the student’s ability to understand the issues proposed and to correctly apply the theoretical knowledge. In addition, the oral exam consists of a discussion no longer than 20 minutes aimed at assessing the knowledge of the theoretical and methodological issues of the course.
- Extended program
- Demographic sources: Italian and international surveys for population studies. The census and population registers. Population growth rate: net natural and migration rates. Age and sex composition of population, Population pyramid, ageing index, age-dependency ratio, sex ratio. Demographic dynamics: crude rates, age-specific rates and standardized mortality ratio. The Lexis diagram and the life tables. Infant mortality rate. Stationary population. Analysis of nuptiality. Transition to adulthood. Fertility: factors affecting fertility, total fertility rate, Gross and net reproduction rate. Foreign population and Migration in Italy. International migration. Population forecasts.
During the course some thematic insights will be offered: general outline of the world population increase. The theoretical framework of demographic transition in developed and less developed countries. Low fertility and population aging in Italy: causes and consequences. The demographic behaviours of the developing countries in the twentieth century. Economic, social and environmental consequences of the expected growth of the world population. population Momentum. Climate change and migration flows. The impact of Covid-19 on Italian demography.