Cet article esquisse les grandes lignes des mutations en cours dans cinq pays qui constituent le Grand Maghreb : Algérie, Libye, Maroc, Mauritanie et Tunisie. Dans ces sociétés, les transformations économiques et sociales, les migrations, les progrès en matière de santé et de...

The twinning rate has increased dramatically over the last four decades in developed countries. Two main factors drive this increase: delayed childbearing, as older women tend to have twins more frequently, and the expansion of assisted reproductive technology (ART), which carries an increased...

A number of studies have been published on the deep-seated changes occurring in Algerian families. Fertility is falling, marriages are happening later in life, the Ayla kinship unit has changed and the traditional family has been replaced by the contemporary family, home to a clash between...

Longtemps en Afrique de l’Ouest, on a souligné le maintien d’une fécondité élevée et d’unions précoces, caractéristiques explicites de relations de genre inégalitaires (grand écart d’âges entre époux, précocité de la fécondité de femmes presque exclusivement vouées à la...

In the early 2000s there were around 40,000 intercountry child adoptions worldwide, most of them concentrated in a few countries of origin (China and Russia) and a handful of receiving countries (headed by the United States). Between 2004 and 2013, the number fell by two-thirds in France and...

Il y a dix ans on comptait environ 40 000 adoptions internationales de mineurs dans le monde, très concentrées dans quelques pays d’origine (Chine et Russie) et quelques pays d’accueil (en premier lieu les États-Unis). Entre 2004 et 2013, le nombre d’adoptions internationales de mineurs...

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 world population has risen seven-fold over the last...

In most developed countries, fertility has declined in response to the economic crisis. France appears to be anexception, but without the crisis, the total fertility rate,which had been increasing for several years, would have continued its upward trend and exceeded 2 children per woman. Trends...