Population & Demography

A groundbreaking, lavishly informative (The New York Times) portrait of the six generations that currently live in the United States and how they c...

This book provides new theoretic and applied material with focus on quantitative methods and data analysis techniques applied in demography, popula...

This book offers global evidence about the increasing longevity, its consequences and its potential for societal benefits. Based on statistics, aca...

This compact book examines age friendliness within the framework of age-friendly ecosystems, and from a place-based approach, considering anchor in...

Population ageing - a growth in the proportion of a population that is in older age - is now occurring in every region and nearly every country of ...

This book is a collection of papers reflecting the latest advances in geographic research on health, disease, and well-being. It spans a wide range...

Discover new places with authoritative atlases, beautifully designed and packaged. Tenth edition of this popular atlas from the prestigio...

This Handbook presents thorough literature reviews and detailed analyses on the development of Chinas social sciences research since the reform and...

This book focuses on global mobility and the worldwide articulation of family life, understood as dimensions of social change that come off from th...

Planning for the 2020 census is already beginning. This book from the National Research Council examines several aspects of census planning, includ...

Aging populations are generating both challenges and opportunities for societies around the globe. Increases in longevity and improvements in healt...

The American Community Survey (ACS) was conceptualized as a replacement to the census long form, which collected detailed population and housing da...

Measuring the Risks and Causes of Premature Death is the summary of two workshops conducted by The Committee on Population of the National Research...

Note: This is the French translation of Recent Fertility Trends in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fertility rates and population growth influence economic dev...

During the last 25 years, life expectancy at age 50 in the United States has been rising, but at a slower pace than in many other high-income count...

Since around 1980, fewer Americans than before are doing better than their parents had that is, more are experiencing downward social and economic...

Among the poorest and least developed regions in the world, sub-Saharan Africa has long faced a heavy burden of disease, with malaria, tuberculosis...

From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new ch...

From SARS to Zika, and Ebola to COVID-19, epidemics and pandemics have become increasingly prevalent in recent years. Each outbreak presents new ch...