Jacques Véron
Senior researcher emeritus at INED, answers questions about his book Faut-il avoir peur de la population mondiale? [Is there reason to fear the world’s population?].
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Unequal distribution of assets in favor of men within heterosexual parental couples
Angèle Jannot, a PHD student at INED, questions the influence of income and degree levels on wealth inequalities within parental couples.
Is it true that as many girls as boys are born on earth?
The spontaneous assumption that a pregnant woman is just as likely to give birth to a girl as she is to give birth to a boy. In reality, the probability of having a boy is slightly higher: on average, 105 boys are born for every 100 girls. We have no explanation for this fact. In some societies, notably in Asia and ...
Is it true that there are more children on earth today than older people?
In France we currently find the opposite: more people over 65 (21% of the population) than children under 15 (17.5%). The situation is the same in the other EU countries due to two combined population aging factors: falling fertility and longer lifespans. But in the rest of the world, there are indeed more children than older people. In Asia, Latin ...
70th anniversary of Stalin’s death. European Deportees to Stalin’s Gulag recount
A new type of online editing that gives website visitors access a considerable number of accounts collected by researchers in recorded interviews with former Gulag deportees.
Is it true that the majority of the French population today reports not belonging to any religion?
Yes. 53% of 18 to 49-year-olds gave that response in 2019-2020. But this is a new finding: in 2008-2009 the corresponding figure was 45%. And if we consider specific groups within the general population, only 21% of immigrants, regardless of the foreign country they were born in, say they have no religion. Other differences are found within the immigrant group ...
Patrick Simon
Senior researcher Patrick Simon tells us about religious diversity in France, including intergenerational transmission of religion and religious practices by inhabitants’ origins.
Silvia Huix
Silvia Huix, in charge of event publicity at INED, tells us about the Apprentice Researchers program that INED has contributed to since 2021.
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Is it true that infant mortality has risen recently in France?
Yes. After falling continuously over the twentieth century, infant mortality is now very low, but stagnating. It even rose slightly between 2014 and 2017 in France, while it is tending to fall in almost all EU27 countries. At 3.9 deaths for 1,000 live births (3.7 in metropolitan France in 2022, the figure for France is above the EU average. Moreover, ...