Half-title: On the principle of population. Introduction by W.T. Layton.

Book I. Of the checks to population in the less civilized parts of the world and in past times -- Statement of the subject. Ratios of the increase of population and food -- Of the general checks to population, and the mode of their operation -- Of the checks to population in the lowest stage of human society -- Of the checks to population among the American Indians -- Of the checks to population in the islands of the south sea -- Of the checks to population among the ancient inhabitants of the north of Europe -- Of the checks to population among modern pastoral nations -- Of the checks to population in different parts of Africa -- Of the checks to population in Siberia, northern and southern -- Of the checks to population in the Turkish dominions and Persia -- Of the checks to population in Indostan and Tibet -- Of the checks to population in china and Japan -- Of the checks to population among the Greeks -- Of the checks to population among the Romans -- Book II. Of the checks to population in the different states of modern Europe -- Of the checks to population in Norway -- Of the checks to population in Sweden -- Of the checks to population in Russia -- Of the checks to population in the middle parts of Europe -- Of the checks to population in Switzerland -- Of the checks to population in France -- Of the checks to population in France (continued) -- Of the checks to population in England -- Of the checks to population in England (continued) -- Of the checks to population in Scotland and Ireland -- On the fruitfulness of marriages -- Effects of epidemics on registers of births, deaths, and marriages -- General deductions from the preceding view of society.