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In Europe, the next fifty years will be marked by the retirement and death of the baby boom generations. But the socioeconomic implications are not necessarily what one might expect. Though the people reaching retirement age will gradually outnumber young ...

Foreign women account for 12% of births in France, and immigrant women, including naturalized French citizens, 15%. The fertility of foreign women is higher than that of French women (3.3 children versus 1.8 in 2004), but since only a small ...

Researchers have developed demographic surveillance systems in several specific regions of Africa. Their purpose is to provide accurate local data, in addition to that of national censuses and surveys, with a view to understanding the mechanisms behind demogra-phic and health ...

In France, traffic accident mortality peaked at 18,000 deaths in 1972 before falling back quite steadily to just 5,500 deaths in 2005 as successive road safety measures were introduced. Among the various factors behind this fall, the introduction of speed ...

Half of the world’s inhabitants (3.3 billion people) now live in towns and cities. And most of the world’s urban dwellers live in developing countries, where populations are largest. Indeed, one in two live in Asia, home to two-thirds of ...

Every other year, the summer issue of Population and Societies called The population of the world presents a global picture of the world population. The data shown here can be found in the World Population Data Sheet published by the ...

At first glance, only a tiny proportion of deaths occurring in France each year - fewer than one in a thousand - can be attributed to occupational diseases. It is acknowledged, however, that the statistics do not reflect reality. For ...

Between 100 and 140 million women worldwide have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). While most live in sub-Saharan Africa, 5% live in African immigration countries of Europe and North America. In regions where FGM is performed, the situation varies from ...

Un numéro spécial de huit pages consacré aux quarante ans de la loi Neuwirth libérelisant la contraception en France 

Employers’ family-friendly policies generally take the form of financial support rather than benefits in kind. Occasional benefits and services are much more commonthan those granted on a regular basis. Corporate day care centres are still very rare, for example, despite ...