By Kajal Rahmani, PhD
Kurdish National Congress Annual Conference, Calgary, Canada, April 30, 2011
Thanks to KNC-NA especially its president and board of directors for this invitation. I am honored to be here today and happy to share my thoughts with my fellow Kurds and friends of Kurds.
What is Demography?
Demography is the study of the characteristics of human populations, such as size, growth, density, distribution, and vital statistics. Why do we need demographic information? In the last century many countries in the world have adopted development strategies to use as the core guideline for their governmental program. The developmental program fits their demographic, socio-economic, educational, health and cultural
Why Population Matters?
Population as a main aspect of development must be considered to pursue the trends of transformation and modernization and design the development planning.