Sociodemographic Vision

The increase in the world population, especially after the Industrial Revolution, has had a series of significant impacts on the evolution of societies and nations worldwide.

Demography can be defined as the study of the size, structure, evolution, and distribution of populations and their specific changes based on birth rates, mortality, and migration.

Population composition can be described according to basic demographic characteristics such as age, gender, family status, and household composition.

One must not forget the need to incorporate other disciplines into demography, such as sociology, economics, social policy, biology, and the environment, and how various external phenomena affect population dynamics, as these will help to better understand different changes and behaviors. Depending on the social and/or economic contexts, the population can be described based on ethnicity, religion, language, education, occupation, income, and wealth. Thus, this discipline has become a useful tool for governments, which use it to determine the country’s growth and the influence of the supply of public, social, and economic services…