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After declining slowly to 3 children per woman on average in the mid-2000s, fertility in Egypt has risen back to 3.5 children in recent years. Women are marrying earlier and more frequently. They also bear their children at younger ages. ...

Variations in life expectancy in the Baltic countries are instructive as they tell us about the possible links between geopolitical upheavals in an outlying region of the Russian Empire, and later of the USSR, andthe progress of the health transition. Well ahead ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, women account for 59% of people infected with HIV, but only 47% of HIV-related adult deaths. To understand why women are overrepresented in the HIV-infected population, differences between men and women must be considered in terms of ...

The National Transfer Accounts method is used to quantify economic transfers between ages. During their working years, individuals usually produce more than they consume. The opposite occurs during their youth and retirement, when their consumption is financed by a redistribution ...

Published for the fortieth anniversary of INED, the June 1986 issue of Population et Sociétés (n°203) written by Michel Louis Lévy featured a timeline of key dates in demographic history. This latest issue repeats the same exercise, extending the period of reference ...