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International Migrations

How are immigrants distributed across the globe? In which countries are they most numerous? This tool provides access to the latest United Nations statistics for 230 countries of the world. Via maps or country lists, select your indicator to view: Immigrant populations in numbers or as a percentage of the total population (immigrant stocks) Annual migratory growth in numbers or per 1,000 population (immigrant flows) Total annual population growth (births + migration) in numbers or per 1,000 population

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World Population Maps

Interactive maps of the population make it possible to see and understand the global demographic trends.

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World Population in graphs

The world population atlas gives the latest United Nations population statistics for 230 countries and regions of the world. You can use its different windows to learn all about world population, to travel from one country to another, to see how the situation changes over time, to rank countries or to compare them with each other.

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Is it true that women have more neighborly relations with other women than with men?

Social relations with neighbors vary by individual, and individuals are more likely to interact with people who resemble them. In connection with those two observations, the “My neighborhood, my neighbors” survey offers some clarifications on the neighborhood socializing of men and women. It finds that women interact with their neighbors—regardless of neighbor’s sex—more than men do, and they play a ...

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Is it true that women migrants to France have more children than nonmigrant women?

Long-distance migration affects fertility timing and levels. Women from France’s overseas departments who migrate to and settle in metropolitan France have fewer children and later in their lives (an average of 2.1 children per woman at age 26) than nonmigrant women in metropolitan France (2.7 children by age 24).Meanwhile, the fertility of women migrants who return to their place of ...

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France population-long series

With information on approximately 50 demographic indicators, this data set provides historical time series tables for both metropolitan and overseas France, covering population change, age structure, immigration, period and cohort fertility, induced abortions, period and cohort nuptiality and dissolution, and mortality. For many indicators, these series go back to the beginning of the 20th century for metropolitan France. Updated each year, they have ...

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Demography of the Greater Caribbean

The Greater Caribbean [Grande Caraïbe in French], comprises forty distinct geopolitical territories, including an archipelago of islands in the Caribbean Sea—two of which are French overseas territories (Martinique and Guadeloupe)—and a group of continental Central and South American countries that includes the French overseas territory of French Guiana. In 2020, the population of the Greater Caribbean was estimated at 301 million, with an average annual growth rate of 1.2% during the preceding 20 years. Over 80% of those inhabitants lived in Mexico, Columbia, Venezuela and Guatemala.

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Is it true that deaths outnumber births in Europe?

Since 2012, natural increase in the European Union has been negative (more deaths than births). This is due to a rise in number of deaths as baby-boomers age, and to relatively low fertility rates in Europe. But in 2020-2021, for the first time, the population of Europe fell, meaning that net migration did not compensate for negative natural increase. In 2021, ...

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Anne Lambert

An interview with Anne Lambert, in charge of INED’s Doctoral and Post-doctoral Affairs (Délégation des Affaires Doctorales et Post-doctorales) since the 1st of the year.

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Sandra Brée, Marie Bergström and Christophe Giraud

An interview with CNRS historian and demographer Sandra Brée, INED research fellow Marie Bergström, and sociologist researcher Christophe Giraud on the notion of the couple in society and the phenomenon of "living apart together".