A pop-up site in Johannesburg aimed at encouraging mini-bus taxi operators and commuters to vaccinate on site.
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Between May 2020 and early September 2021, over a quarter of a million more people have died from natural causes than was predicted for that time period.
Biologists and demographers are actively debating whether there is a natural cap on the human life span, and how high that might be.
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Jeanne Calment of France died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. That record will be broken this century, statistical models suggest.
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Census 2021 is no ordinary population survey – it will lay the foundation for Australia’s post-pandemic future.
The 2021 census will help show the changes wrought by a year of COVID-19.
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Because of the pandemic, we know less about the shape and size of our society than we have for decades.
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Once the pandemic is over, London’s gravitational pull is likely to come back into play.
Nigeria’s last census was conducted in 2006.
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Planning for Nigeria’s next census scheduled for 2021 must address critical issues.
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Reliance on paper-based birth certificates is becoming less practical. They also make it harder for all babies to be officially recognised.
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With 70 percent of its people under 30 years, Nigeria needs to harness the strength in its youthful population.
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Large numbers of young people can represent great economic potential. But this only works if Nigeria can invest in their health and education and new economic opportunities.
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Under a severe scenario, Australia’s population will be 4% smaller than if the pandemic hadn’t occurred.
Census enumerators in Nairobi, Kenya. Countries need to collect comparable statistics about populations.
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The governments of several African countries have been reporting counts of confirmed cases, recoveries and deaths related to COVID-19, without a breakdown by age and sex.
Fertility rates: hard to predict.
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Why there’s no need to panic over warning of ‘jaw-dropping’ fertility decline.
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Despite the hype about a “coronial” baby boom, the pandemic is likely to see many Australians delay or not have children at all.
The pandemic has stretched out the amount of time the census is being conducted, contributing to worries over accuracy.
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An accurate census requires good data in and good data out. With the 2020 census, the US has unprecedented challenges with both.
Health workers test for COVID-19 in Asuncion, Paraguay.
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A group of population experts have called on governments in Latin American and the Caribbean to urgently ramp up testing for COVID-19 before it’s too late.
Francis William Edmonds’ ‘Taking the Census,’ from 1854.
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Countries have been trying to count their populations since the Han dynasty in China.
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Long before coronavirus hit Australia we were moving less between states and regions. Some worry about economic impacts, but a greater concern is inequality if some people find themselves ‘trapped’.
Cesarean sections have become more common in the U.S.
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The decline in US birth weight is somewhat of a puzzle for public health researchers.
Many American women are having children later in life.
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The number of births in the United States have been falling for the last three decades, reaching their lowest number in 32 years.
The U.S. will undergo some significant shifts in the next decade.
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The number of old people will increase, while the proportion of white Americans will continue to fall.