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Australia’s latest population projection figures have just come out. This is what they show about our demographics and where the country is heading in the future.
This service is a good first step towards a one-stop shop for easy access subnational statistics to understand local areas and how they’re changing.
Detailed data on the ages at which people die can give good indications of a person’s remaining life span.
Women are underrepresented in architecture, occupying just 25% of jobs in the field. An architecture professor shares insights from her childhood on how those numbers can be turned around.
Birth rates are falling – but the population in England will continue to rise.
Following a 30-year boy-to-girl birth rate imbalance, up to 800,000 ‘extra’ men born since the mid-1980s will be unable to find a South Korean woman to marry. That has big demographic consequences.
The diversity of Israel’s Jewish population has been a source of tensions, but also strength, over the decades.
Big data is not the answer to all the challenges that faced Census 2022, but it may be a key enabler for gathering reliable national data in the future.
Chinese politicians have looked toward policies to encourage couples to have more children to offset population decline. It hasn’t worked.
Without policies that take account of a growing population with few working-age people, DRC risks seeing an increase in poverty and hunger.
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.
A sociologist interviewed dozens of middle-class Black singles about their friendships, freedom and dating lives.
Voters in Michigan and Ohio once voted similarly in statewide and federal elections. Now, Michigan swings blue and Ohio is red.
Adverse childhood experiences are associated with an increased risk of mental health problems in adulthood.
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.
Two religiously observant groups of Jews in Israel, the ultra-Orthodox and Religious Zionists, are increasingly acting as political allies. The consequences could be profound.
South Africans would rather see efforts go into tackling other challenges – but climate change will intensify those challenges.
For many environmentalists, overpopulation is a real concern. But the planet will benefit more from tackling overconsumption by rich countries.
Top contributors
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie 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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Roy C. Buck Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Demography, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Research Director of the Center for Employment Equity, UMass Amherst
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Professor of population and development studies, University of Kinshasa
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ARC Australian Professorial Fellow, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Visting Instructor in Sociology, University of South Florida
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of South Carolina
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Ph.D. Candidate in Communication, UMass Amherst
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Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Sociology, Eastern Michigan University
