Effects of the Second World War on Postwar Population in European Countries
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The impacts of the death in the Second World War (WW2) on the size and the quality of the population in the European countries after the war are investigated in the present study. Both the short- and long-term effects are discussed. To make it convenient for the qualitative and quantitative analysis, the annual natural change rate and the life expectation are employed to quantify the size and the quality of the population, respectively, while the death in the WW2 is converted to . Our linear regression analysis in different time scales indicates that the death during the WW2 has significant short-term impacts on the annual natural change rate and the life expectation after the war, which lasts for approximately 10 and 25 years, respectively. In contrast, the influences of the death during the WW2 on the size and the quality of the population can be considered totally extinguished in the long run after 55 years from the end of the war. Additionally, we discover for the first time that the effects of the war decays rapidly on the annual natural change rate while slowly on the life expectation as time passes by.
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18686/mmf.v6i4.6600
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