Yes, it is fairly exceptional. If we exclude 2014, when Mayotte became a French department, and 2021, as the COVID-19 pandemic showed signs of receding, births have been falling in France for nearly 13 years. 663,000 children were born in France in 2024, approximately 170,000 fewer babies than in 2010 (-21%). The country’s total fertility rate stands at 1.62 children ...
Until now, rising temperatures on earth have not caused mortality to rise. On the contrary, mortality has continued to fall in all countries (except those experiencing civil wars). And we do not have reliable enough information to state that mortality will increase in particular countries in the future due to continued rising temperatures. Projections by the United Nations Human Climate ...
In France, where the age for starting mandatory formal schooling has recently been changed from 6 to 3 in the aim of reducing social inequalities from a very young age, INED researchers have been studying children’s language and motor development at age 2, before they start nursery school. Differences by parents’ socioeconomic milieu may be observed from the child’s earliest ...
Très concentrée géographiquement, très féminine, la population d'immigrants chinois en France est en grande partie constituée d'étudiants.
The pill is the most widely used method, but practices are becoming more diverse.
In 2014, about 56 millions abortions were performed accross the world. Slightly under half were high-risk abortions.
The first study on mortality among second-generation immigrants in France reveals a large amount of excess mortality among North African-origin males
La mortalité pour les principaux types de cancers évolue favorablement en France, mais à des rythmes très variés selon la localisation organique et selon le sexe.
Mothers who share physical child custody with the child(ren)’s father after divorce or legal dissolution of their civil union are more likely to be working than mothers with residential custody
In 2020 the world population was at nearly 8 billion. In 1800 it was only 1 billion. And over the last fifty year it has doubled, from 4 billion in 1974. It is expected to keep growing, and could reach nearly 10 billion by 2050. Why is growth expected to continue? Could the world population stabilize in the long term? Might it decrease in the coming decades?
