SLAM (Longitudinal Survey Rural Mali): 25 years of research in the Sahel

25 years of demographic tracking in 7 rural villages reveal changes that are imperceptible at the scale of the continent

A partnership with Mali’s statistical office INSTAT

Seydou Moussa Traore, general director of Mali’s national statistics institute INSTAT, presents its collaboration with INED

Restoring survey findings to respondent population in Mali

The SLAM Project attaches great importance to communicating—restoring—its findings to the villagers who participated in the surveys

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Intercountry adoptions down by two-thirds

From 2004-2013, the number of children adopted from abroad fell dramatically in the 10 countries that adopt the most

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Young people from overseas départements in metropolitan France : who are they?

The best educated leave for metropolitan France in the greatest numbers; they are also most likely to settle there

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International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

The ExH survey of women with FGM living in France finds that many have difficult sexual lives

In France one divorce for every two marriages...

121,849 divorces were granted in metropolitan France in 2013— over half the number of marriages celebrated that year

When parents separate, ties between children and their grandparents stay strong

Relationships are stronger on the maternal side, but this imbalance is also found in united families, according to a study in Switzerland

Still the norm for children to reside primarily with their mother

The vast majority of children of divorced couples in France live with their mother. In 7 in ten cases mothers get exclusive residential custody

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Unions : cohabitation, pacs, marriage

Today, the couples which decide to live together can choose consensual union, marriage or civil partnership. How many actually live in cohabitation, how many get married, how many are civil partners? Which factors push them to choose one of these forms of unions?

Demographic fact sheets

Rising number of homeless persons in France

Studies done by INSEE and INED in recent years have found that the number of homeless persons is rising. In metropolitan France in early 2012, the figure was 141,500 persons, nearly 50% more than in 2001. In towns or cities of at least 20,000 inhabitants, two in five homeless persons are women

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The population in graphs

An interactive system for comparing countries, mapping curves and viewing change in the population pyramid

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Women’s rights: unfinished and fragile progress

Twenty years after the Beijing international conference on women, what can be said of women’s condition? The Atlas Mondial des Femmes brings to light the “paradoxes of emancipation,” such as fragile or incomplete progress and new forms of inequality. A scientific panorama, illustrated by over 120 maps and computer graphics

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