logistic equation: The mathematical expression for a particular sigmoid growth curve in which the percentage rate of increase decreases in linear fashion as the population size increases.

Two basic principles are involved, the idea of exponential growth and its ultimate control. The basics of population ecology emerge from some of the most elementary considerations of biological facts.

and age constitution to the shape of the growth curve, 586.--The Algerian population, 587--Inconclusiveness of Peal's analysis, 589.--Further analogy--correlation of population growth with density, ...

Most business models based on the S-curve assume that once growth slows, the goal is to sustain the peak for as long as ...

A new report on population growth and sustainable development from the Population Division of UN DESA revisits the complex relationships linking population increase to social and economic ...

A new report from UN DESA, Global Population Growth and Sustainable Development, provides analysis and insights on the demographic and socioeconomic drivers of population growth and magnifies the ...

The Growth Incidence Curve (GIC) captures graphically the annualized growth rate of per capita income for every percentile of the income distribution between two points in time. Over the last decade, ...

Weak population gains and increased government spending will result in slower overall economic growth over the next 30 years, ...

Growth Incidence Curve (GIC): The Growth Incidence Curve is a conceptually useful tool to analyze the impact of aggregate economic growth over a wide range of the distribution (Ravallion and Chen, ...