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Fertility, Mortality and Migration in Subsaharan Africa : The Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia, 1925-90
Fertility Mortality and Migration in Subsaharan Africa The Case of Ovamboland in North Namibia 192590 Author:Veijo Notkola, Harri Siiskonen Scant evidence has been a major obstacle for studying historical demography in sub-Saharan Africa. Our certain knowledge of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the 20th century population development is based on a retrospective view of the post-Second World War censuses. In north Namibia the availability of continuous series of parish re... more »cord data since the 1920as opens excellent possibilities to study population and development on a regional level by primary sources. This study analyzes, fertility, mortality, and internal migration in north Namibia among the Christian population from the mid-1920s to the 1990s.« less