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Fertility, Mortality, and Population Growth in 18th and 19th Century Korea: Evidence from Genealogies  

Cha, Myung-Soo (영남대학교 경제금융학부)
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Korea journal of population studies / v.32, no.1, 2009 , pp. 113-137 More about this Journal
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This article uses genealogical information to estimate fertility, mortality, and population growth in Korea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Upper class males' probability of dying as estimated from genealogies was converted into that for the whole male population drawing upon information on colonial mortality and model life tables, which indicated male life expectancy at birth was 23 years. Age-specific marital fertility rates for upper class females as calculated from genealogies were combined with estimates of age at first marriage and information on colonial fertility to derive age-specific fertility rate for the whole female population, which implied a total fertility rate of 6.81. Finally, the estimated indices of mortality and fertility were inserted into equations describing stable populations to find that the Korean population grew 0.62% p.a. during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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dynastic Korea; fertility; mortality; population growth;
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