La population de la France métropolitaine, 61,9 millions d'habitants au 1er janvier 2008, a augmenté de 0,5 % en 2007. La croissance tient pour les quatre cinquièmes à l'excédent des naissances sur les décès, et pour le cinquième restant, à l'excédent migratoire, différence entre les...

Les étrangères contribuent aux naissances de la France dans une proportion de 12 % et les immigrées, qui incluent les étrangères devenues françaises, dans une proportion de 15 %. La fécondité des étrangères est plus élevée que celle des Françaises (3,3 enfants contre 1,8 en 2004),...

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...

Africa continues to suffer from an acute lack of healthcare provision. Is the construction of new healthcare facilities sufficient to improve the health of the population? This is certainly a question raised when the opening of a new hospital fails to bring about any rapid improvement in health...

This paper provides an overview of trends in mortality in children aged under 5 and adults between the ages of 15 and 60 in sub-Saharan Africa, using data on the survival of the children and siblings collected in Demographic and Health Surveys. If conspicuous stalls in the 1990s are disregarded,...

Pison Gilles. ? A Demographic Study of Polygyny. In this paper three demographic problems consequent on the existence of polygyny are examined. The first relates to the functioning of the marriage market. Given that there is rough numerical equality between the sexes, how can a system of...