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Our ideas about population have varied continuously over the centuries, as illustrated in the vocabulary changes detected by Ngram Viewer in the vast corpus of books digitized by Google. For example, the French word démographie, first coined in 1855, did ...

The value placed on slimness varies between countries, and may be greater for one or other sex. Four groups of countries emerge: a set of mainly European countries, including France, where slimness is more highly valued for women than for men; ...

Every other year, Population and Societies publishes a special issue called The population of the world, presenting an overall picture of the situation across the globe. There are slightly more than 7 billion humans on the planet in 2013. The ...

Après 35 ans de chute continue, la fécondité tunisienne vient d'atteindre le seuil fatidique : 2,2 enfants par femme en 1998, probablement 2,1 en 1999 [1], tout juste ce qu'il faut pour qu'une mère soit, à la génération suivante, remplacée ...

While the number of people wishing to adopt a child in France is increasing, the number of children available for domestic adoption is in decline, since today most births are planned. For this reason, many families now adopt children from ...

Human reproduction is based on the sexual union of a man and a woman. Nonetheless, scientific research on fertlity (births), fécundity (the ability to give birth) or contraception (birth control) is mainly devoted to women and practically ignores men. Some ...

Life expectancy at birth increased by leaps and bounds in 20th century France, from 45 years in 1900 to 79 years in 2000. For the past thirty years, the gains have been mainly due to mortality improvements among the older ...

France and Ukraine would appear to be very far apart in terms of economics and history. Yet their demographic profiles were very similar for more than fifty years. France Meslé, Gilles Pison and Jacques Vallin investigate the long-term trends at ...

À l'invitation des Nations Unies, la presse a largement célébré le 12 octobre l'arrivée du « six milliardième homme ». Comme celui-ci a dû naître au paléolithique, il y a environ 30 000 ans, il s'agissait en fait de marquer le ...