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Jasmin Abdel Ghany
2 days ago
🚨 A defining moment for global health data. The termination of the
#USAID-supported
Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program has wide-ranging consequences. We reflect on the collapse and argue what should come next in a new PNAS:
doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…
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Join the IUSSP for a high-level virtual debate: "When Populations Shrink - Should States Encourage Births or Adapt?" (Zoom, 1 April 2026). 4 world experts from Finland, Japan, South Korea and Norway will address various aspects of the issue
iussp.org/en/iussp-deb...
#demography
#populationstudies
2 days ago
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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)
5 days ago
📢 Call for Papers! We invite you to submit your research for the Wittgenstein Centre Conference on "Demography and Human Capital", taking place from Dec 1-2, 2026 at
@oeaw.bsky.social
in Vienna. 📆 Deadline: April 30, 2026 🔗
www.oeaw.ac.at/vid/news-eve...
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Fertility postponement is not a universal correlate of fertility decline By Thomas Spoorenberg and Vegard Skirbekk
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Fertility postponement is not a universal correlate of fertility decline - N-IUSSP
Worldwide, the path leading to delayed fertility is more complex than it may appear at first sight. Thomas Spoorenberg and Vegard Skirbekk offer a few keys to better interpret current ... Read more
https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/fertility-postponement-is-not-a-universal-correlate-of-fertility-decline/
5 days ago
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Demographic Research
11 days ago
LGBTQ+ adults in the US have distinct partnership and living arrangements often missed in surveys: less often married, more likely to cohabit or have non-coresidential partners, and more likely to live alone, with roommates, or in smaller households.
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IUSSP Webinar: Toward a Demography of Crisis and Resilience Join us for a lively roundtable exploring both short-term emergencies and longer-term demographic consequences — and what resilience really means in demographic terms.
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11 days ago
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N-IUSSP: The disproportionate burden of multi-morbidity at death in the US
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The disproportionate burden of multi-morbidity at death in the US - N-IUSSP
Using multiple cause-of-death data from the United States, France, Italy, and Spain, Magali Barbieri and colleagues show that multi-morbidity at death contributes disproportionately to the US disadvan...
https://www.niussp.org/health-and-mortality/the-disproportionate-burden-of-multi-morbidity-at-death-in-the-us/
12 days ago
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
16 days ago
👓Recommended Reading📚 How Mobile are Highly Talented Academics Compared to Other Scientists?
Aliakbar Akbaritabar
et al. examined whether regional & gender-specific differences exist in the academic mobility of highly talented scientists compared to other scientists.
www.demogr.mpg.de/go/RRead
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INED (in english)
17 days ago
🧪
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
Higher education and careers: gender disparities persist 🔎 Read the interview of INED Researcher Delphine Remillon:
www.ined.fr/en/everythin...
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IMPRS-PHDS
17 days ago
Call for applications: European Doctoral School of Demography (EDSD) 2026-2027 To be held at
@mpidr.bsky.social
and
@sghwarsaweu.bsky.social
Application deadline: 27 March 2026 at 12 PM (noon) Program start: 1 September 2026 Scholarships are available Details:
eaps.nl/edsd/how-to-...
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
16 days ago
We are looking forward to welcome a new EDSD Cohort in September. Apply now!
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N-IUSSP: Policy polarization is rewriting the American geography of longevity
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Policy polarization is rewriting the American geography of longevity - N-IUSSP
The United States is becoming increasingly heterogeneous, a tendency also reflected in mortality trends. Perhaps unexpectedly, one of the driving forces behind these trends is state political orientat...
https://www.niussp.org/individual-and-population-ageing/policy-polarization-is-rewriting-the-american-geography-of-longevity/
19 days ago
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N-IUSSP: The growing importance of donor eggs in assisted reproductive technologies in UK
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The growing importance of donor eggs in assisted reproductive technologies in UK - N-IUSSP
Across high-income countries, women and couples are having children later than ever before, sometimes turning to assisted reproductive technologies (ART). At older ages, however, Ester Lazzari and Luz...
https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/the-growing-importance-of-donor-eggs-in-assisted-reproductive-technologies-in-uk/
26 days ago
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N-IUSSP: Too much for the Dutch? How the Dutch baby boom affected kinship size in 2018
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Too much for the Dutch? How the Dutch baby boom affected kinship size in 2018 - N-IUSSP
Dutch kinship network data, Vera de Bel argues, suggest that the Dutch baby boom has trickled down from one generation to the next, leading to larger numbers of aunts, uncles, ... Read more
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/too-much-for-the-dutch-how-the-dutch-baby-boom-affected-kinship-size-in-2018/
about 1 month ago
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N-IUSSP: The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends
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The importance of educational expansion for longevity trends - N-IUSSP
Educational expansion has contributed to increasing the average lifespan and reducing its variability. As Jesús-Daniel Zazueta-Borboa, Ugofilippo Basellini and Fanny Janssen show for England & Wales, ...
https://www.niussp.org/health-and-mortality/the-importance-of-educational-expansion-for-longevity-trends/
about 1 month ago
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N-IUSSP: Silver splits and older adults’ mental health in Europe: the role of children
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Silver splits and older adults’ mental health in Europe: the role of children - N-IUSSP
The emotional consequences of “silver splits” (at age 50 years or over) depend on one’s ties with adult children. When these ties are close, Lisa Jessee and Deborah Carr observe, ... Read more
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/silver-splits-and-older-adults-mental-health-in-europe-the-role-of-children/
about 2 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Female early marriage and gendered fertility choices in Pakistan
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Female early marriage and gendered fertility choices in Pakistan - N-IUSSP
Using four Pakistan Demographic and Health surveys Rashid Javed, Mazhar Mughal and Thierry Lorey find that women married before 18 show stronger son preference and differential fertility stopping patt...
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/female-early-marriage-and-gendered-fertility-choices-in-pakistan/
2 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Paris: from capital of early death during the Belle Époque
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Paris: from capital of early death during the Belle Époque (1871-1914) to a longevity champion today - N-IUSSP
Paris was once marked by high mortality. In the late 19th century, the French capital lagged significantly behind the rest of France in life expectancy. Today, it ranks among the ... Read more
https://www.niussp.org/health-and-mortality/paris-from-capital-of-early-death-during-the-belle-epoque-1871-1914-to-a-longevity-champion-today/
2 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Strong impact of lifestyle factors on trends in socio-economic mortality inequalities
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Strong impact of lifestyle factors on trends in socio-economic mortality inequalities - N-IUSSP
The key public health problems of smoking, alcohol and obesity are strongly socially patterned. In recent years, Fanny Janssen says, they have contributed markedly both to average educational inequali...
https://www.niussp.org/health-and-mortality/strong-impact-of-lifestyle-factors-on-trends-in-socio-economic-mortality-inequalities/
3 months ago
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Vienna Institute of Demography (VID)
3 months ago
📢 Call for papers is now open! We invite you to submit your contributions to the Vienna Yearbook of Population Research 2027 special issue "Demographic perspectives on migration". 📆 Submit until 15 May 2026. 🔗
viennayearbook.org/call
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@vypr.bsky.social
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N-IUSSP: The health trajectories of refugees and how they differ from those of other migrants
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The health trajectories of refugees and how they differ from those of other migrants - N-IUSSP
Alessandro Ferrara investigates whether refugees arriving in Germany during the 2010s follow the same health trajectories as other migrants. He finds that, like other newcomers, refugees arrive with s...
https://www.niussp.org/health-and-mortality/the-health-trajectories-of-refugees-and-how-they-differ-from-those-of-other-migrants/
3 months ago
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N-IUSSP: First births in Britain: parental class and partnership context
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First births in Britain: parental class and partnership context - N-IUSSP
Using UK birth cohorts (1940–1989), Alessandro Di Nallo shows that parental occupational class predicts whether first births occur in marriage, cohabitation, or while single – and at what ages. Despit...
https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/first-births-in-britain-parental-class-and-partnership-context/
3 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Formal childcare usage linked to higher second birth hazards in Belgium
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Formal childcare usage linked to higher second birth hazards in Belgium - N-IUSSP
Working mothers who use formal childcare for their first child are more likely to have a second, Jonas Wood says. While part of this effect reflects differences in who uses ... Read more
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/formal-childcare-usage-linked-to-higher-second-birth-hazards-in-belgium/
3 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Beyond the “demographic winter”
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Did you know? - N-IUSSP
In 2024, nearly 78 per cent of women aged 15–49 who wanted to avoid pregnancy used modern contraceptive methods. Despite this progress, more than 250 million women of reproductive age ... Read more
https://www.niussp.org/graphics/did-you-know-39/
3 months ago
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N-IUSSP: The kinship gap. When just a few years of difference make a difference
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The kinship gap. When just a few years of difference make a difference - N-IUSSP
Rapid decline in a country’s birth and death rates creates a “kinship gap”, leaving people born just years apart with vastly different family support networks. Sha Jiang discusses the ensuing ... Read...
https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/the-kinship-gap-when-just-a-few-years-of-difference-make-a-difference/
3 months ago
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N-IUSSP: The short-lived fertility upturn among Polish emigrants to the Netherlands
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The short-lived fertility upturn among Polish emigrants to the Netherlands - N-IUSSP
The European Union enlargements of the early 2000s were accompanied by intense emigration from the new member states. This was followed by an apparent increase in emigrants’ fertility, well above ... ...
https://www.niussp.org/migration-and-foreigners/the-short-lived-fertility-upturn-among-polish-emigrants-to-the-netherlands/
4 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Immigrants’ cultural identity and employment chances in Italy
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Immigrants’ cultural identity and employment chances in Italy - N-IUSSP
Drawing on data from ISTAT’s survey on the Social Condition and Integration of Foreign Citizens, Alessio Buonomo, Stefania Capecchi, Francesca Di Iorio and Salvatore Strozza examine the association be...
https://www.niussp.org/migration-and-foreigners/immigrants-cultural-identity-and-employment-chances-in-italy/
4 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Families and households Socioeconomic inequalities and single women’s entry into parenthood in Belgium
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Socioeconomic inequalities and single women’s entry into parenthood in Belgium - N-IUSSP
Socioeconomic inequalities shape the ways in which people form families. Denise B. Musni and Christine Schnor show that these inequalities influence women’s likelihood of becoming a mother while singl...
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/socioeconomic-inequalities-and-single-womens-entry-into-parenthood-in-belgium/
4 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Internal migration and childhood loneliness in Europe
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Internal migration and childhood loneliness in Europe - N-IUSSP
Drawing on data from 26 European countries, Aude Bernard, Patricia McMullin, and Sergi Vidal uncover a strong association between the number of internal moves and childhood loneliness. Childhood migr...
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/internal-migration-and-childhood-loneliness-in-europe/
4 months ago
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N-IUSSP: The role of mortality in fertility transition studies
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The role of mortality in fertility transition studies - N-IUSSP
Vegard Skirbekk and Thomas Spoorenberg advocate the combined use of fertility and mortality information, or net reproduction, when discussing fertility levels and trends, both in developing and in dev...
https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/the-role-of-mortality-in-fertility-transition-studies/
5 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Modest changes in spousal age differences over time in sub-Saharan Africa
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Modest changes in spousal age differences over time in sub-Saharan Africa - N-IUSSP
Using information from 144 surveys across 34 countries from 1980 to 2020, Pearl Kyei, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, John Casterline and Ayaga Bawah find that the age difference between spouses decreased by ......
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/modest-changes-in-spousal-age-differences-over-time-in-sub-saharan-africa/
5 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Pace of Aging of older adults in the US and UK
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Pace of Aging of older adults in the US and UK - N-IUSSP
Based on a longitudinal analysis of dried-bloodspot, physical-exam, and performance-test biomarkers in nearly 20,000 participants in the US Health and Retirement Study and English Longitudinal Study o...
https://www.niussp.org/individual-and-population-ageing/pace-of-aging-of-older-adults-in-the-us-and-uk/
5 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Changing unions in the MENA region
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Changing unions in the MENA region - N-IUSSP
Marriage and family ties in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are undergoing profound changes. While traditions persist, young people now marry later, fewer cousin marriages occur, and family .....
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/changing-unions-in-the-mena-region/
5 months ago
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N-IUSSP: A century of mortality crises in France and its regions
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A century of mortality crises in France and its regions - N-IUSSP
While the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted societies worldwide, its demographic toll in France was far lower than the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic or the 1911 heatwave. Florian Bonnet and Carlo-Giovanni Camar...
https://www.niussp.org/health-and-mortality/a-century-of-mortality-crises-in-france-and-its-regions/
5 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Does grit matter for migration? The case of South Africa 2018–2020
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Does grit matter for migration? The case of South Africa 2018–2020 - N-IUSSP
Michael J. White, Tyler W. Myroniuk, Carren Ginsburg, and Chantel Pheiffer examine the question of whether migrants in the South African context (2018–2020, rural-to-urban migration) have more “grit”—...
https://www.niussp.org/migration-and-foreigners/does-grit-matter-for-migration-the-case-of-south-africa-2018-2020/
5 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Is there a strong two-child norm among U.S. women?
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Is there a strong two-child norm among U.S. women? - N-IUSSP
For decades, the majority of Americans have reported ideal family sizes of two children, yet actual birth rates are falling well below reported ideals. Julia Behrman, Emily Marshall, and Florian ... R...
https://www.niussp.org/family-and-households/is-there-a-strong-two-child-norm-among-u-s-women/
5 months ago
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N-IUSSP: The silent rise of solitary older adults in Ghana
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The silent rise of solitary older adults in Ghana - N-IUSSP
This qualitative study explores solitary ageing in Ghana’s Greater Accra Region. Interviews with 52 older adults from six communities revealed situations of emotional isolation, social disconnection, ...
https://www.niussp.org/individual-and-population-ageing/the-silent-rise-of-solitary-older-adults-in-ghana/
6 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Why delaying old-age pension claiming might not be worth the risk for everyone
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Why delaying old-age pension claiming might not be worth the risk for everyone - N-IUSSP
Lifespan is uncertain, even for well-informed individuals. Sha Jiang, Wenyun Zuo, Zhen Guo and Shripad Tuljapurkar show that this irreducible demographic risk increases with delayed pension claiming a...
https://www.niussp.org/education-work-economy/why-delaying-old-age-pension-claiming-might-not-be-worth-the-risk-for-everyone/
6 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Ten years of emergency contraception in Italy (2012-21)
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Ten years of emergency contraception in Italy (2012-21) - N-IUSSP
Emergency contraception has been on the rise in Italy in the past 10 years, especially after recent liberalization laws. Gianpiero Dalla-Zuanna, Anna Giraldo and Marzia Loghi discuss the pros and ... ...
https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/ten-years-of-emergency-contraception-in-italy-2012-21/
6 months ago
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N-IUSSP: How internal migration affects sex-ratios in rural eastern Germany
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How internal migration affects sex-ratios in rural eastern Germany - N-IUSSP
Rural-to-urban migration within eastern Germany has overtaken east-west migration as the main driver of skewed adult sex ratios in rural areas. The shift in migration patterns, according to Nico Stawa...
https://www.niussp.org/migration-and-foreigners/how-internal-migration-affects-sex-ratios-in-rural-eastern-germany/
6 months ago
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N-IUSSP: Mental disorder and (reduced) fertility in Norway
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Mental disorder and (reduced) fertility in Norway - N-IUSSP
Several countries have seen recent increases in the prevalence of mental disorders. Has this contributed to reduced fertility? A Norwegian register-based analysis shows negative associations between m...
https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/mental-disorder-and-reduced-fertility-in-norway/
6 months ago
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8 months ago
Congratulations to
#IUSSP
!! Laureate Institution by @UNFPA and announced at the
#IPC2025
#Brisbane
The @IUSSP International Population Conference is the world’s largest international scientific conference on
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Video from 48:30
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🌏 It all begins today!
#IPC2025
kicks off in Brisbane — the international gathering of population experts. Explore fertility, migration, health, climate & more. Visit our desk onsite to plan your
#VisitBrisbane
& Queensland! 📍 July 13–18 | Brisbane
#IUSSP
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ipc2025.iussp.org/final-program/
8 months ago
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Demographers, extend your
#IPC2025
trip! 🧭 Explore Queensland's living population labs: 📍Logan – Multicultural heartbeat 📍Cherbourg – Indigenous data stories 📍Sunshine Coast – Urban boom Learn more about Queensland and plan your trip!
www.queensland.com.au
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8 months ago
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🎨 The International Population Conference 2025 logo, designed by Aboriginal artist Breanna Buttenshaw, features the Brisbane River ("brown snake") and a meeting place symbolising global travellers coming together. Find out more about
#IPC2025
:
ipc2025.iussp.org
#VisitBrisbane
#ExploreTNQ
8 months ago
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N-IUSSP: The growing role of ART in fertility rates in Norway
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The growing role of ART in fertility rates in Norway - N-IUSSP
Assisted reproductive technology (ART) is playing an increasingly important role in the realization of childbearing intentions in advanced societies. While ART is more accessible than ever, its usage ...
https://www.niussp.org/fertility-and-reproduction/the-growing-role-of-art-in-fertility-rates-in-norway/
8 months ago
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🌍 How do populations respond to global shocks like climate change, conflict & pandemics? Join the Crises, Shocks & Resilient Populations plenary at
#IPC2025
! 📍 Brisbane, 13–18 July 🔗
ipc2025.iussp.org
#IPC2025
#VisitBrisbane
#demography
#populationstudies
8 months ago
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Explore Brisbane’s vibrant city life, then journey through Queensland’s natural wonders—reef dives, rainforest hikes, and sunny beaches await! Start your adventure at
www.queensland.com
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#ExploreTNQ
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8 months ago
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📢 Explore the
#IPC2025
program! 🌏✨ Join the world’s largest population science event this July in Brisbane. With 24 themes—fertility, migration, climate, health & more—it’s unmissable. Preview the program 👉
ipc2025.iussp.org/final-program/
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8 months ago
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Discover Brisbane’s charm, then explore Queensland’s stunning coastlines, reefs, and rainforests. From the Great Barrier Reef to the Gold Coast, adventure and beauty await in every direction. Plan your escape now at
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