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Japan’s experience shows how difficult it is to restore fertility to the replacement level, especially when a country has a sizable population and a persistently low birth rate. [Noriko Tsuya [...]

Globally, demographic risks were evident well before the pandemic. Then, COVID-19 took a steep toll on the labor force and altered broader demographic dynamics. [Vaibhav Tandon, Ryan James Boyle [...]

Statistics Canada is presenting population projections on immigration and ethnocultural diversity in that country. READ MORE

The results show that survival progress is mainly having an effect on population growth at older ages, although accounting for indirect historical effects illuminates additional contributions at [...]

A fundamental driver of household growth is population growth. The population residing in households grew by only 7.5% in the last decade, the slowest population growth since the 1930s. [Richard [...]

The report presents research on care work during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on structural barriers that prevent equitable distribution of caregiving between women and men. While data show [...]

Childhood experiences, both positive and negative, shape the physical, mental, and social health of individuals throughout their entire lives. Early childhood adversity and its residual effects [...]

East–West differences in the outcomes of intentions to postpone or forego (further) childbearing have not been previously examined. With two panel waves of the Generations and Gender Survey in [...]

This indicator measures the financial disincentives to participate in the labour market for a jobseeker claiming unemployment benefits. It calculates the proportion of earnings that are lost to [...]

COVID-19 – its associated public health responses and social and economic impacts – is likely to have multiple deleterious effects on mental health, including elevated risks of anxiety and [...]