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.
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.
If you made it past early childhood, your chances got better to see your golden years.
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Many young people are bleak about what the future holds - and this is having an impact on their plans to have children.
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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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.
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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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)