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),...

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...

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...

Estimates of adult mortality in countries with limited vital registration (e.g., sub-Saharan Africa) are often derived from information about the survival of a respondent’s siblings. We evaluated the completeness and accuracy of such data through a record linkage study conducted in Bandafassi,...

Desgrées du loû (Annabel), Pison (Gilles). - The Role of Vaccination in Lowering Children's Death Rates in Senegal Since the end of World War II, death rates of children and teenagers in Senegal have fallen. The reduction occurred later in rural areas than in the towns and was the result of...