Implications for Economic Growth

Abstract

IT is clear from the foregoing that at present very little can be asserted with any degree of confidence and that much of what has been asserted in the past must now be ignored. The only facts of national population growth are still the figures derived from nineteenth-century censuses and the civil registration of births, marriages and deaths after 1838; and, as has been seen, even some of these are inexact and require some degree of correction. For reasons elaborated in earlier sections, there is no longer much confidence in estimates either of aggregates or of the vital rates derived from the PRA, no matter how skilful or ingenious the methods of correction employed.