Table of Contents
Part 1 Population and History
1 Introduction 3
2 The Weight of Numbers 11
Part 2 The Gathering Tide: Among the Europeans
3 The Triumph of the Anglo-Saxons 41
4 The German and Russian Challenges 69
5 The Passing of the 'Great Race' 100
6 The West since 1945: From Baby-Boom to Mass Immigration 131
7 Russia and the Eastern Bloc from 1945: The Demography of Cold War Defeat 164
Part 3 The Tide Goes Global: Beyond the Europeans
5 Japan, China and East Asia: The Ageing of Giants 195
9 The Middle East and North Africa: The Demography of Instability 224
10 Nothing New Under the Sun?: Final Frontiers and Future Vistas 255
Appendix I How Life Expectancy is Calculated 283
Appendix II How the Total Fertility Rate is Calculated 289
Acknowledgements 291
Notes 293
Bibliography 313
Index 331