First, a fall in the number of children per woman would not have an immediate impact on demographic growth (or decrease). This is because many females in countries with high fertility have already reached child-bearing age. Second, over the long term a substantial fall in fertility would imply population aging, confronting the world population with substantial problems such as how to ...
Drawing on detailed data from France’s 1999 and 2015 population censuses, Julie Fromentin, a former PhD student at INED, analyzed how the composition of the immigrant population in rural and peri-urban areas of metropolitan France and in the country’s small towns evolved over that period.
A new study published in Demographic Research by researchers from INED, the Université de Montréal, and INSERM enriches our knowledge on the question of human longevity. The authors’ analysis, based on French data from the International Database on Longevity (IDL) currently developed by INED, does not find a mortality “plateau” for human beings at extreme ages. In 2016, geneticists published an ...
Ce graphique représentant l'évolution du nombre des hommes se dessine sur deux axes : L'axe horizontal représente les années, de l'an -65 000 à l'an +5000. L'axe vertical indique l'effectif total de la population mondiale.
In France in the mid-2010s, a child of two spent an average of 56 minutes per day looking at screens; for children aged three and a half it was 1’20”, and for children aged five and a half, 1’34”. Screen exposure times differ by the sociodemographic characteristics of the household the child belongs to, and they tend to be higher ...
Yes. Considering the situation from the children’s perspective, direct descendants are more implicated in helping their parents when they are the only child. In 2015, for example, 22% of "only children" were helping a dependent parent. In families with two children, only in 6.5% of situations were both siblings implicated in care, while one sibling alone was involved in 16% ...
tell us about INED studies of the prison inmate population in France. (Interview conducted in March 2021)
Yuxi Wang, winner of a Marie Skłodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellowship (Horizon Europe), arrived early September 2023 for a two-year stay at INED’s Mortality, Health and Epidemiology research unit, where she’s working under the supervision of INED senior researcher Carlo-Giovanni Camarda.
What does the term “complex households” cover? What proportion of households in French Polynesia are “complex”?
