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John Bongaarts
Dutch-American demographer
John P. M. Bongaarts (born 1945) is a Dutch-American demographer. He serves as Vice-President and Distinguished Scholar at the Population Council, where he has worked since the 1970s.
John bongaarts biography
Bongaart has performed research in a diverse set of topics, such as population growth and aging, mortality, population-environment links and demography related to the epidemiology of HIV/AIDS. His most recognized work lies in the field of fertility, and has been a topic of interest throughout his career.[1]
Career
Bongaarts was born in Tegelen, the Netherlands, in 1945.[2][3] He obtained a degree in electrical engineering from Eindhoven University of Technology in 1968.
Bongaarts subsequently moved to the United States where he studied physiology and biomedical engineering at the University of Illinois and obtained his PhD in 1972, with a dissertation titled: "A Cybernetic Model of the Demographic Transition".
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