Size matters.

Size matters.
Thomas Rawson spoke on infectious disease & demography, while Melinda Mills shared lessons from public participation in digital & health projects and chaired a session on behavioural & social considerations.
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Estonian men have lived shorter lives than women for 150 years #demography #Estonia #history
Experts debate Latvia’s demographic challenges before parliamentary election #demography #elections #latvia
We're delighted to welcome a new Co-Editor to JFR! 🎉Dr. Caroline Berghammer from VID, Austria, (@demographyvienna.bsky.social) joined our team on October 1st, 2026, and we are very happy to have her on board. We very much look forward to everything we'll accomplish together.🌱 #sociology #demography
#Demography
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'Diversity in causes of death: A new framework to account for multiple causes of death' - Demographic Research, September 2026
https://www.demographic-research.org/articles/volume/55/20
#Demography #PopMastodon
What happens when restrictive immigration and collapsing birthrates leave less of a nation to preserve?
Welcome to Ghostownification.
#Nationalism #Demography #FarRight #Immigration #PoliticalScience #Pronatalism #PopulationDecline
📢 The #LunchSeminar programme for this semester is here!
We’re excited to announce a new series of presentations covering a wide range of topics in #demography and population studies.
🖥️ All seminars can be followed online: us02web.zoom.us/j/87199604242
🎯 Japan is the canary in the coal mine.
Join us tomorrow 30 SEPT at 10 am NY / 16:00 Paris for IUSSP Webinar "Three Years and a Lifetime Later: Recommendations for Rights- and Justice-informed FP Measures".
Register in advance.
N-IUSSP: Too old to give blood? Not in South Korea, by Kim Oh Seok
I was also pretty stunned by the wording of this NBER abstract 🫠. As @rcobooth.bsky.social lays out very nicely, there are many important questions to be explored here, but language, especially around reproductive choices, matters. substack.com/home/post/p-... #econsky #demography
Learn Carrefour des Statistiques sur le SGDI (Séminaire gratuit) at your own pace! #Statistics #Sociology #PublicPolicy #DataScience #Demography #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats
Life expectancy in Hungary has roughly doubled since 1900. The greatest gains occurred between 1925 and 1950, while progress was slowest between 1975 and 2000.
#demography #Hungary
Youth migration to cities makes rural areas older, more conservative, more #Republican while cities population becomes younger, more liberal, more #Democrat. #US #politics #demography
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#PopulationResearch #Demography #GeospatialData
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2/ We find that growing smoking-mortality associations can largely be explained by the age composition of smokers shifting older, where mortality is higher.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar... #demography #episky #publichealth @oxforddemsci.bsky.social @oxpop.bsky.social @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social
For decades, it's been a truism that younger generations are healthier & live longer (on average) than their parents' generation. Sadly, there are signs that our health may be "drifting" backward.
Read more about "generational health drift": jenndowd.substack.com/p/is-50-the-... #demography