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L'ordonnance du 4 octobre 1945 et les lois des 22 mai et 13 septembre 1946, qui ont organisé la Sécurité sociale et instauré l'assurance vieillesse, n'ont pas mis instantanément fin à la détresse économique et morale qui caractérisait si fréquemment ...

While deaths caused by bovine spongiform encephalopathy can be counted on one hand in France, about a hundred thousand deaths are caused each year by tobacco (around 60,000 deaths in 1995), alcohol (45,000) and road accidents (8,000). A look at ...

Life expectancy at birth now stands at 79 years in France, according to vital registration data. Mortality data for the Ancien Régime can be found in the parish registers in which local priests recorded baptisms, marriages and burials. They are ...

The future of pensions has been a prominent issue in French public debate for at least fifteen years. Two key events were the release of the report entitled “Aging in Solidarity” (Vieillir solidaires) by the State Planning Commission (Commissariat Général ...

Nearly 1 in every 100 deliveries is a twin birth. Triplet, quadruplet and higher order deliveries occur much more seldom — only once in 10,000 deliveries. Is the incidence of twin births the same everywhere in the world? Do twins ...

Every other year, the summer issue of Population & Sociétés présents a global picture on the world population data.

According to WHO, about half a million women die each year due to pregnancy or childbirth. Over half of these women are African (53% in 1995), while the rest are Asian (42%). Less than 1% of maternal deaths occur in ...