IT IS HARD to keep up with the protest movements under way around the world. Large anti-government demonstrations, some peaceful, some not, have in recent weeks clogged roads on every continent: ...

Please click below to find out more information about the courses and programmes available at Undergraduate and Masters levels. There are no bespoke degrees in historical economic demography at LSE, ...

The past two decades has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the health and well-being of the older population. The workshop looked at these recent trends and set the stage for the next ...

Researchers and students studying historical demography come from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, demography, economic history, economics, epidemiology, family history, geography, ...

Slower growth in the working-age population is a problem in much of the country. Could targeted immigration policy help solve it? By Neil Irwin For many years, American economists have spoken of Japan ...

Nicholas Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in political economy at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how demographic trends in China, Russia, and the United ...

FOR BULGARIAN bosses, recruitment is becoming a bit of a nightmare. Finding a lathe operator—competent or otherwise— takes more than six months, and may require forking out cash to a recruitment ...

NextGenPop conference builds a new, diverse generation of population sciences students Work with a demography scholar at Emory University was enough to interest sociology major Courtney Fitzgerald in ...

Throughout its history, the United States has been a nation of immigrants. Some came in search of economic opportunity, some for political, religious, or artistic freedom, some to reunite with their ...

Three years after the initial outbreak in Wuhan (which now seems to date from September or October 2019), city-wide lockdowns continue in China. The economic engine has been thrown out of gear. The ...

Yet buried within that promise is a looming question that policymakers can no longer afford to ignore: will Nigeria’s demographic expansion become an economic dividend or a destabilizing force? By mid ...

Earlier this week, the National Bureau of Statistics in China announced that the Chinese population has decreased for the first time in 60 years. The population decrease does not come as a complete ...