Epidemics, famines, and population in the Cape Verde Islands, 1580-1900. International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1988. Population dynamics of the Cape Verde Islands from the sixteenth century to 1900 are analyzed. The major famines and epidemics that occurred over this period are identified and described, and their demographic impact assessed. An attempt is also made to evaluate the efforts of the responsible colonial power, Portugal, to cope with the results of these periodic crises.
Data are from published sources.
K. D. Patterson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223. Current Rates and Estimates Studies of censal and other estimates based on current data, together with the relevant methodological studies. Includes studies from World War II up to the present day. Population development of Czechoslovakia in 1987. Demografie, Vol. 30, No. 4, 1988.