Many countries in West Africa do not have up to date census surveys.
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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.
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.
Census 2021 is no ordinary population survey – it will lay the foundation for Australia’s post-pandemic future.
Because of the pandemic, we know less about the shape and size of our society than we have for decades.
Once the pandemic is over, London’s gravitational pull is likely to come back into play.
Planning for Nigeria’s next census scheduled for 2021 must address critical issues.
Reliance on paper-based birth certificates is becoming less practical. They also make it harder for all babies to be officially recognised.
With 70 percent of its people under 30 years, Nigeria needs to harness the strength in its youthful population.
Top contributors
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Social Science and Public Policy, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, Penn State
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Professor of Demography, University of Cape Town
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Professor of Demography, The University of Texas at San Antonio
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Professor of Demography, University of Ibadan
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Assistant Professor in the Sociology of Population, Florida State University
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of International Security and Director of the Center for Strategic Studies, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
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Associate professor, University of Ibadan
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Gilles Pison is a Friend of The Conversation.
Anthropologue et démographe, professeur émérite, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN); Ined (Institut national d'études démographiques)