Consequences of the KR regime on Cambodian demographics

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Consequences of the KR regime on Cambodian demographics

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Baby Boom After Khmer Rouge Led to Cambodia’s Young Population
April 3, 2017

When a country goes through a devastating war, the return to peace usually involves a “baby boom” for a few years as soldiers arrive home and want to rebuild their lives and families, according to French researcher Patrick Heuveline.

In the case of Cambodia, however, the boom after the collapse of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 lasted for most of the 1980s, said Mr. Heuveline, a sociologist specializing in demographic analysis, whose research has focused on the consequences of the regime. The result, he said, is the young median age of the country’s population today.

According to the latest survey by Cambodia’s National Institute of Statistics, 68.5 percent of the population was under the age of 35 in 2013, and so born after the Khmer Rouge regime. This meant, Mr. Heuveline said, that a disproportionate number of people were of school age and afterward competing for work at the same time, taxing the school system and job market.

The 2013 survey also showed that 51 percent of the population was under 25 years old...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/baby ... on-127415/

Mr Heuveline is giving a free conference on this subject at the Institut Francais tomorrow night, Tuesday 4 April at 6:30pm. The talk will last around 45 minutes, to be followed by a Q & A session.
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Re: Consequences of the KR regime on Cambodian demographics

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Before the Years of Disaster, the population was said to be 7 million. Twenty-two years ago, it was
claimed to be 11 million. And now?

Is 15 million the accepted guesstimate?
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those figures might go a long way to explaining things :)
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: Mon Apr 03, 2017 8:30 am
According to the latest survey by Cambodia’s National Institute of Statistics, 68.5 percent of the population was under the age of 35 in 2013, and so born after the Khmer Rouge regime.
The 2013 survey also showed that 51 percent of the population was under 25 years old...
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i think the fact a quarter of the population being wiped out in the 70's has a bit of a role to play in the statistics, not just the fact everyone started bonking more because of the war
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