Detailed data on the ages at which people die can give good indications of a person’s remaining life span.
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Artículos sobre Demography
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Birth rates are falling – but the population in England will continue to rise.
Environmental policymakers and scholars must listen to sub-Saharan Africans’ voices and recognize the importance of population for achieving sustainable development goals.
In general, an ageing population puts added pressure on the working-age population to be more productive – just to maintain total output – amid growing fiscal constraints.
As the nation approaches the 70-year anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, an education professor lays out the state of school segregation in America.
The 2024 general elections will show to what extent the new provincial leadership can start to turn around the ANC’s fortunes in the Western Cape.
South Korea’s fertility rate fell below the level needed to sustain a population in the mid-1980s – and it never recovered. It is now below one child per woman during her reproductive years.
Many countries in West Africa do not have up to date census surveys.
Idaho, Montana and Florida had the highest population growth among US states between 2020 and 2022.
Hosting migrants isn’t only motivated by humanitarian reasons. In Germany immigration provides solutions to demographic and economic problems.
Vital records document the birth, death, marriage and divorce of every individual. A more centralized system in the US could help public health researchers better study pandemics and disease.
For the first time since 1961, deaths in China have outpaced births – and unlike that one-year decline, the downward trend is likely to continue.
Childbearing goals have remained remarkably consistent over the decades. What has changed is when people start their families and how many kids they end up having.
Arguments about population growth are unhelpful, distracting and often racist.
The shift to remote work has led to a population boom for towns close to Australia’s major cities. That boom threatens to change what makes those towns so appealing.
Nasty, brutish – but not necessarily short. Here’s how archaeologists know plenty of people didn’t die young.
Women’s contributions to global Christianity are immense, but scholars’ understanding is hampered by limited data.
Census is a huge scientific responsibility that requires a high level of preparedness, transparency and quality assurance.
Many young people are bleak about what the future holds - and this is having an impact on their plans to have children.
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.
Principales colaboradores
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Associate Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor Emeritus of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University
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Associate professor, University of Ibadan
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Professor of Demography, University of Ibadan
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Professor of Demography, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Professor of International Politics and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle et conseiller de la direction de l'INED, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN)
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Senior Lecturer, Queensland Centre for Population Research, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Demography, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
