In the continuing commemoration of this anniversary, the December 2016 issue of Population featured a 1946 article by Jean Meuvret, « Les crises de subsistances et la démographie de la France de l’Ancien Régime » [Subsistence crises and demography in Ancien Regime France], commented on by Christine Théré and Isabelle Séguy.
For the 70th anniversary of its founding, the journal Population has been republishing articles from its 1946 issues, each commented upon by present-day researchers.
Developed countries’ populations are aging inexorably, creating new equilibria that societies have to adapt to.
differences between male and female married couples
The number of twin births in France has almost doubled in the last 40 years. Why? What are the effects?
France is the only Western country, apart from Luxembourg, Italy and the Czech Republic, where the law allows women to request that their identity be kept secret and withheld from their child’s birth certificate
Des différences d’âge dans les comportements de fécondité apparaissent entre hommes et femmes
Since 2000, 31 countries on every continent have passed legislation granting same-sex couples the right to marry. Australia was the 27th in 2017.
It is frequently claimed that more and more migrations will result from environmental changes caused by global warming.
Parmi les jeunes sortis de protection après l’âge de 10 ans, les garçons sont un peu plus nombreux que les filles (56 % contre 44 %). Les jeunes concernés sont fréquemment issus de familles nombreuses, séparées et/ou recomposées : 43 % ont au moins un demi‐frère ou une demi‐soeur. La prise en charge est souvent associée à des contextes familiaux ...
