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.
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South Africa’s data collection is constantly improving. That’s especially true when it comes to metrics that weren’t collected or were distorted for political purposes during apartheid.
Once seen as being driven mainly by retirees, migration out of of our biggest cities to less crowded coastal regions is now being led by younger Australians.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson said Australia is “the highest-growing country in the world”, with population growth “double than a lot of other countries”. Is that right?
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.
Health and demographic surveillance systems are important to understand people and the societies that they live in.
Reasoned debates on sustainable migration intake levels are important. But transport and health infrastructure shortfalls in Western Sydney won’t be solved by reactive anti-immigration attitudes.
Australia’s GPI, a broad measure of national wellbeing, has stalled since 1974. So what has been the point of huge population and GDP growth since then if we and our environment are no better off?
The latest statistics show Australia’s population growth in the last decade has been significantly higher than in other developed countries.
Considering all the aspects of life in Australia that are affected by population, it’s remarkable that the nation doesn’t have a national policy on it.
Long-term studies help identify new risk factors for disease and how we might address them.
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.
Cracking genetic responses to the changing environment in Africa would open a new frontier in the drive against rising non-communicable diseases on the continent.
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Demographer, POLIS Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Demography and Social Statistics., Obafemi Awolowo University
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Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford
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Principal Research Fellow, Charles Darwin University
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Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University
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Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney
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Chief Information Officer at the Africa Health Research Institute, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, Australian National University
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Honorary Professor of Demography, Macquarie University
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Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Denver
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Assistant Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of California, Davis
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society & School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University
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Associate Professor in Environmental Engineering, Adelaide University
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Research student, School of Natural & Built Environments, Adelaide University
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Reader in Population and Public Health, MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand