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Under a severe scenario, Australia’s population will be 4% smaller than if the pandemic hadn’t occurred.
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.
Why there’s no need to panic over warning of ‘jaw-dropping’ fertility decline.
Despite the hype about a “coronial” baby boom, the pandemic is likely to see many Australians delay or not have children at all.
An accurate census requires good data in and good data out. With the 2020 census, the US has unprecedented challenges with both.
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.
Countries have been trying to count their populations since the Han dynasty in China.
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’.
The decline in US birth weight is somewhat of a puzzle for public health researchers.
The number of births in the United States have been falling for the last three decades, reaching their lowest number in 32 years.
The number of old people will increase, while the proportion of white Americans will continue to fall.
Black Americans who grow up in racially segregated areas tend to have worse health, education and future economic prospects. Moving out can make a big difference.
Over the last 35 years, the number of Americans who have moved has steadily declined to nearly half of their previous levels.
People living in rural and small town America have much at stake in the 2020 census. But census participation tends to be lower in rural areas.
Department stores are collapsing. The internet is part of the problem, but so too is the hollowing out of the middle class.
Demographers have figured out a simple and effective way to estimate the number of unauthorized immigrants – even without information on citizenship.
The UN’s new global population projections include some surprises – in particular, that the global population in 2100 will be 3% less than they projected in 2017.
The US divorce rate has fallen steadily over the last 30 or 40 years. It’s likely because young adults are taking more time to decide to marry.
By 2050, the US will be a ‘majority-minority’ country, with white non-Hispanics making up less than half of the total population.
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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)