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Recent changes to the 2020 census are worrying experts who say they may lead to an undercount. It’s an issue other democracies have also grappled with throughout history.
In a South Australian leaders’ debate, Jay Weatherill and Nick Xenophon disagreed over the extent to which young people are leaving the state in search of better opportunities. We asked the experts.
The upcoming census, like many before it, will boil complex information on race, ethnicity and ancestry into just two questions. That leaves a lot of important information out of the data.
In the 1990s, older Californians struggled to make way for a younger, more diverse generation. Here’s how that ‘racial generation gap’ transformed the state – and what it means for the rest of the US.
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The audio version of a long read on stalling life expectancy in the UK.
Many cities lack the resources to analyze their own vast troves of administrative data.
Life expectancy has been steadily improving in the UK for 110 years. Until now.
The world’s population has reached 8 billion and is expected to climb to nearly 10 billion by 2050. Why will population growth inevitably continue? Should we try to reduce or stop this growth?
Indonesia has a lot of catching up to do to provide its people with skills, including digital literacy, to find jobs in a shifting landscape propelled by innovation in digital technology.
Leaving no-one behind is a catchphrase that seeks to ensure that all people benefit from the global development agenda set in the sustainable development goals.
Australia will be left behind without adequate planning and preparation on fertility issues.
John Thompson was more than just another Washington bean counter. His resignation may affect which party controls Congress after 2020.
Melbourne is Australia’s most rapidly growing city, a title it wrested from Perth around 2013-14. Several of Australia’s big cities are growing well above the national average population growth rate.
Is Trump up or down? Will the public vote yes or no? Who will win the election? A mathematician’s guide to understanding polls in the media.
Nine out of 10 rural places experienced increases in diversity from 1990 to 2010. Data show a more diverse future is guaranteed across all of America, and there’s no going back.
‘Rural America’ is a deceptively simple term for a remarkably diverse collection of places. Understanding – and improving – these parts of the country is critical for all Americans.
When it comes to public services, it’s not just a question of demand, but also one of supply.
How can we possibly know how many millions of people are living in the U.S. illegally? Demographers have actually refined a simple formula that’s worked pretty well since the 1970s.
In her maiden speech to the Senate, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said Australia is in danger of being swamped by Muslims. What does the data say?
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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)