Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242668 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
African Economic History Working Paper Series No. 39/2018
Publisher: 
African Economic History Network (AEHN), s.l.
Abstract: 
Fourie and Green construct estimates of the Khoikhoi population over the 1652- 1780 period using benchmarks for the initial and terminal Khoi populations and benchmarks for the punctuated population declines from smallpox epidemics in 1713 and 1755. I review the evidence underlying each of the four population benchmarks and argue for a revised 1780 benchmark. Qualitative evidence also points to a higher rate of population decline between 1652 and 1723 and a smaller rate of decline between 1723 and 1780. Using the Fourie-Green methodology and adopting 3 of their 4 population benchmarks, I develop two revised estimates of the Khoi population to supplement the original Fourie and Green estimates
Subjects: 
Demography
Cape colony
Khoi
JEL: 
N01
N37
N57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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