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  • On Kiribati and climate change and island nation migration

    Kiribati, a collection of very low-lying islands in Micronesia almost absurdly vulnerable to climate change and rising sea levels has just announced how it intends to make sure its citizens can find refuge: they'll all become professionals.In one of the most emotional sessions so far of the Copenhagen climate meeting,' [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 6:34pm EST

  • On the Philippines, its demographics, and relative demographic weight

    I've two news articles concerning the demographics of the Philippines I'd like to share with you.The first is Maragtas S.V. Amante's ABS-CBN News "Korea – Pinoy mixed marriages and tensions in the multicultural family", which examines the problems facing Filipino women migrating to South Korea to marry local men left [...]
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    Posted: December 04, 2009, 9:46am EST

  • On Indonesia and migration

    The name of Conrad Barwa is probably familiar to at least some of you, since there's some overlap between the readerships of Demography Matters and the sadly hiatused Head Heeb. I'd like to thank him for bringing to my attention a recent article from Time, Mark Scliebs' "Rape and the" [...]
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    Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:41pm EST

  • On migration and justice

    A recent post by Laura Agustin at her blog Border Thinking, "Undocumented migrants, inflexible employment systems", linking to an article of hers in the London Progressive Journal, has gotten me to thinking.Many looking at the images of smashed camps around Calais would like to know why those sad young men [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 11:43am EST

  • Three Atlantic Canadian articles

    Population increase (or decrease) is entirely determined by a combination of natural increase (or decrease) and either minus or plus migration. In Atlantic Canada, the trends are definitely pointing towards a decrease.In the Globe and Mail, Jeffrey Simpson writes ("Newfoundlanders return, but the outports are still in peril") about how [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 6:56pm EST

  • Your thoughts on a paper, please?

    A few days ago, Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen linked to a recent paper by UC Davis researcher Giovanni Peri, "The Effect of Immigration on Productivity: Evidence from US States". This paper is the latest entry into the debate on whether or not immigration depresses wages.Below is the abstract.Using the large [...]
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    Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:58am EST

  • Two South Korea links

    I've come across two New York Times articles which explores interesting elements of Korean identity as it relates to migration.First, Ron Nixon examines the identity issues surrounding adopted South Koreans in the United States as part of a wider phenomenon of transracial adoption and its issues: a half-million children have' [...]
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    Posted: November 25, 2009, 11:23am EST

  • Chain migration to Libya?

    The Global Detention Project's description of Libya's system of apprehending, detaining, and deporting illegal immigrants is pretty much common knowledge. Immigrants in Libya generally have it hard, with the million-odd sub-Saharan Africans attracted to this middle-income country during Qadhafi's strongly pan-African phase being confined to the margins of Libyan life, [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 11:46pm EST

  • A Polynesian passport?

    The ever worth reading monthly magazine Monocle had a brief item that caught my attention. Unfortunately, the only mention I can find of it is in this brief article from Radio New Zealand.Creating passports for Pacific people travelling within the region is one of the aims of a group of [...]
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    Posted: November 19, 2009, 1:42pm EST

  • On soldiering and migration

    Yesterday was Remembrance Day in Canada, the two minutes of silence starting on the 11th minute of the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month commemorating the 65 thousand war dead of the First World War. These dead, like Caanda's other war dead, as in other nations, [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 5:21pm EST

  • If people around the world could move, who would leave for where?

    A recent Gallup poll that reported very large numbers of people--700 million, actually--right now would like to migrate between countries has gotten quite a lot of attention from the press. What, exactly, did the pollsters find?From its surveys in 135 countries between 2007 and 2009, Gallup finds residents of sub-Saharan [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 2:48pm EST

  • A brief note on the problems facing the Canadian guest worker program

    Canada's Low Skill Pilot Project, instituted earlier this decade to allow for the temporary migration of low-skilled foreign migrants to fill gaps in the Canadian market, has received quite a lot of negative attention recently. Earlier, the program was criticized un detail by Toronto Star columnist Carol Goar.In 2008, close [...]
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    Posted: November 06, 2009, 1:41pm EST

  • Atlantic Canada's aging population and expected labour shortages

    Over at my blog I've linked to a recent study by the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, "The Future of Atlantic Canada: ealing with the Demographic Drought", by Amelia Demarco and Bradley George.CFIB members have identified several advantages to operating a business in Atlantic Canada. They include the ability to' [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2009, 4:30pm EST

  • A brief note on demographics and sex and fear and envy

    I'd like to thank Conrad from Facebook for pointing me to this Asia Times article, " India lost in 'love jihad'". The Indian state of Kerala, with its population both multiconfessional and well advanced in its demographic transition, is seeing some unusual tensions.As part of an organized campaign, young Muslim' [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2009, 4:37pm EDT

  • More on Australian population futures

    Over at The Australian, that paper's David Uren and Michael Sainsbury report on how Secretary to the Treasury Ken Henry expects Australia's buoyant population profile to help sustain a long boom there.The world's third-largest economy, which is due to pass Japan to grab second spot next year, saw growth of [...]
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    Posted: October 28, 2009, 9:04pm EDT

  • Are Americans Becoming Less Nomadic?

    I know that it is eons since I last posted here (thanks to Randy for ever great content), but I want to share this piece with you on declining nomadism amongst Americans; it is written for Newsweek by author Joel Kotkin. I am not quite sure whether he believes the [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2009, 5:34am EDT

  • "Migration, births gets Australia through GFC"

    News.com.au's Drew Cratchly writes about a report by Australian film PKF claiming that Australia's success in avoiding a recession is owing mostly to the country's high rate of population growth.Natural population growth and a steady migration rate are the unsung heroes of Australia's economic resilience through the global financial crisis, [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:14am EDT

  • On aging and education

    Agence France-Presse recently published an article examining one of the less-examined consequences of Taiwan's very low birth rate.More than one in three Taiwanese colleges are likely to be forced to close by 2021 due to a shortage of students as the island's birth rates continue to fall, local media said [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2009, 6:49pm EDT

  • On interethnic marriage in the global North

    The generally reliable Paul Goble at Window on Eurasia--generally reliable--has summarized here this Argumentiy i fakty article. Making perhaps dubious claims about the difficulty facing married partners coming from different cultural backgrounds, the article ends by quoting one Olga Kurbatova, who claims that perhaps two-thirds of interethnic marriages in Moscow [...]
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    Posted: October 15, 2009, 12:59pm EDT

  • On Prince Edward Island's recent migration-driven population growth

    I was surprised by this Globe and Mail article about my native province of Prince Edward Island, located in eastern Canada near the Atlantic. Apparently the Island has become something of a hotspot for international immigration.An aggressive marketing strategy – focused on selling a lifestyle over poster-perfect vistas – along [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 10:06am EDT

  • The UNDP on Russia's demographic crisis

    My thanks to the Financial Times' Tony Barber for linking to this UNDP report describing Russia's situation. As Barber points out in his own summary, it isn't pretty.The report describes the stark reality of a country whose population is falling fast, to a considerable extent because of rampant alcohol abuse [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2009, 1:11pm EDT

  • On the new wave of Portuguese emigrants

    Over the years I've blogged extensively about Portuguese-Canadians and Brazilian-Canadians, the various things happening with the Portuguese language in the world, and about Lusophone countries like Portugal and Angola and Brazil, because my past five years of residence in Toronto have all been spent in one Portuguese neighbourhood or another' [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2009, 2:47pm EDT

  • More on Canadian regional demographics

    Following up on my post last month about rising Canadian period fertility, the CBC reported recently that western Canada, led by Alberta, has seen the highest rate of population growth.Alberta was the fastest growing province with a growth of 0.59 per cent — or about 20,000 new residents — in [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2009, 11:05am EDT

  • On the developed world's cohorts of future centenarians

    When blogger James Nicoll linked to this Guardian report suggesting, after The Lancet, that "50% of Britons born now will see their century," he did so using the link label: "Experts warn of nightmarish future filled with healthy and productive old people."Sarah Boseley's article reports that the researches of Kaare [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 2:03pm EDT

  • On how Senegalese migrants measure risk and why they still migrate

    It's a well-known fact that Senegalese and sub-Saharan migrants who try to make it to Spain by boat can easily encounter potentially lethal problems en route.The sight of desperate developing world immigrants turning up on the beaches where Europeans routinely visit to sunbathe is becoming increasingly common in the Canary [...]
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    Posted: October 01, 2009, 4:59pm EDT

  • On Singaporean population trends

    The latest Singaporean census has revealed that immigration is driving sharp population growth in the island city-state.Singapore's population has grown to almost 5 million and a quarter of that is foreign workers, whose influx has sparked concerns among its citizens about competition for jobs and living standards.The non-resident population in [...]
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    Posted: September 30, 2009, 3:35pm EDT

  • "No place like home: Brazilian immigrants leave US for better job prospects

    Last month, I blogged about the history and reality of Brazilian immigration to New England's island of Martha's Vineyard. (Incidentally, the relatively heavy incidence of Portuguese, Brazilian, and Cape Verdean immigration to New England suggests the existence of Lusophone migration networks.) This month, the Christian Science Monitor's Taylor Barnes writes [...]
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    Posted: September 29, 2009, 1:16pm EDT

  • On Ukrainian regional demographic divergences: help?

    This excerpt from the Wikipedia article on the Ukrainian population presents succinctly the very interesting regional divergences that I'd like to blog about today. Forgive me the extended data dump.Between the Soviet census of 1989 and the Ukrainian census of 2001, Ukraine's population declined from 51,271,996 to 48,077,020, a loss' [...]
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    Posted: September 28, 2009, 8:41am EDT

  • What's up with the Russian census?

    Window on Eurasia's Paul Goble reports that some Russians wonder if the Russian census, originally scheduled for 2010, has been rescheduled for 2013 or even 2014 on account of various logistical and methodological problems.According to a report on the Slon.ru portal, “it is possible that now live in Russia not [...]
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    Posted: September 24, 2009, 12:37pm EDT

  • And the Canadian birth rate goes up

    Statistics Canada announced yesterday that the Canadian birth rate has continued to rise.Canadian women gave birth to 367,864 babies in Canada in 2007, up 13,247 or 3.7% from 2006 and the fastest annual increase since 1989.The number of births rose in all age groups, particularly among mothers aged 30 to 34, and in every province and territory, except Prince Edward Island and [...]
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    Posted: September 23, 2009, 3:31pm EDT

  • On the vulnerability of indigenous peoples to the H1N1 virus (and other diseases)

    In Canada, the latest issue surrounding the H1N1 virus surrounds a rather spectacularly insensitive gaffe made by the ministry of health under the current Conservative minority government, which shipped body bags along with medical supplies to at least one Manitoba First Nations reserve. At the same time that this happened, [...]
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    Posted: September 22, 2009, 5:28pm EDT

  • Want some demographics-related interactivity at the Financial Times?

    At the address http://www.ft.com/migration, the Financial Times hosts the multimedia presentation "Trading places: Migration in the crisis" which, unsurprisingly, takes a look via video and audio at the consequences of the global economic crisis on everything from Ukrainian labour migration to white South Africans' consideration of returning to their homeland.' [...]
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    Posted: September 21, 2009, 3:27pm EDT

  • On the contradictions between traditional family structures and high completed fertility in developed countries

    In his Globe and Mail article "Germany's working mothers get some respect", Doug Saunders describes one very important reason behind Germany's incipient population decline: alternative family structures beyond the patriarchal nuclear family haven't taken nearly enough hold.A child seemed a welcome addition to the life of Jutta Hoffritz, who had' [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 9:20pm EDT

  • On the slim likelihood of a Chinese takeover of the Russian Far East

    For some time, it's been taken for granted by many--see bloggers here and here and here--that China, with its growing population and its booming economy, is destined to take over the Russian Far East, usually the southern portions of said territory around the cities of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk, on account [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 12:51pm EDT

  • On the serious problems with replacement migration to Sweden (and elsewhere)

    The concept of replacement migration--briefly put, the recruitment of immigrants by low-fertility countries to compensate for population aging and "gaps" in a country's age pyramid--has been quite controversial since it was proposed in a United Nations study earlier this decade. It's been taken for granted by many people, though, that [...]
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    Posted: September 16, 2009, 9:16am EDT

  • On Tunisia's continuing demographic transition

    I`d like to point our readers to an interesting article on Tunisia's changing demographics. From Tunisia's GlobalNet comes the article "La Tunisie se féminise, mais le célibat est mixte" ("Tunisia feminizes, but celibacy remains complex"). My (hopefully not too imperfect) translation of some of the most salient points is below.Tunisia [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 10:01am EDT

  • On the concentration of Québec immigrants in Montréal

    Over at the French-language Cyberpresse website, associated with the Montréal newspaper La Presse, Claude Picher remarks on the very significant gap between Montréal and the rest of Québec in the proportion of immigrants in local populations.Ensemble, les petits qui parlent arabe, espagnol, italien, créole, chinois, tamoul, vietnamien, bengali et des [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2009, 5:54pm EDT

  • On independent Samoa's migration issues

    Earlier this year, I've blogged here about the relatively huge scale of emigration from Tonga in particular and the Pacific islands in general, while over at my blog I've written about Tonga's issues and New Zealand's quotes for immigration from the fully independent states of the South Pacific islands.Another significant [...]
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    Posted: September 09, 2009, 11:41am EDT

  • "Fertility rate boosted by immigrant women in rural South Jeolla county"

    Following up on earlier posts about international marriage migration to South Korea, JoongAng Daily's reporters Hong Hye-jin and Lee Min-yong report that in at least some rural areas of the province South Joella, this migration seems to be boosting birth rates.[A]lmost half of the newborn babies at Yeonggwang county hospital [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 9:15am EDT

  • South Korea's immigration future

    The English-language edition of the Korea Times reported on an unsurprising prediction for the future.The Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS) highlighted Thursday some of the nation's expected highs and lows in its latest report "Grand Vision 2050," aimed at helping the government plan ahead to accommodate upcoming socioeconomic [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 4:12pm EDT

  • On Central Asian emigration

    Yesterday at my blog, I posted a link to an article describing the sad and terribly impoverished lives of the people of Tajikistan's Gorno-Badakhshan region in the east of Tajikistan. The people living in the poorest region of one of the world's poorest countries describe their lot as misery, lamenting [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 12:33pm EDT

  • On British Boston's baby boom

    The Guardian's Sarah Boseley and Emine Saner have produced an interesting if somewhat impressionistic new article on Britain's recent growth in fertility ("The new baby boom"), starting with Boston, namesake of the American Boston's, one of the more notable communities namesake located in Lincolnshire, and a community with a TFR' [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 3:21pm EDT

  • On Jamaican population trends

    The Jamaica Observer's Arlene Martin-Wilkins reports that Jamaica, relatively one of the more important emigration countries, is set to see net population decline by 2050 thanks to the demographic transition and emigration.Jamaica's population is growing at an annual rate of 1.1 per cent and is on track to reach 2.8 [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 10:57am EDT

  • Who'll pay for IVF in Ontario (and elsewhere)?

    Recently, an interesting proposal was made regarding a new service to be covered by OHIP, Ontario's public health insurance plan.The Ontario government should provide funding for up to three cycles of in vitro fertilization for women under the age of 42, according to a report released Wednesday.An expert panel on [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 2:31pm EDT

  • On the growing gender imbalance among young Vietnamese

    IPS' Helen Clark reports that Vietnam is joining that cluster of East Asian countries marked by a strongly male-biased sex ratio, following the standard rationale.Vietnam is something of a regional leader when it comes to gender equality. There are laws against domestic violence and discrimination, and very high female literacy.Yet' [...]
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    Posted: August 26, 2009, 11:15am EDT

  • On fertility and ethnicity in Malaysia

    This news item got a certain amount of coverage, here thanks to Aslak as well as more widely.An increasing number of Malaysian couples are seeking fertility treatment as the country's birthrate declines, a newspaper has reported.A recent United Nations report showed the country's fertility rate dropped from 3.6 babies per [...]
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    Posted: August 25, 2009, 3:22pm EDT

  • How Québec and Alberta are (so far) avoiding lowest-low fertility

    Globe and Mail columnist Doug Saunders recently drew my attention, and that of others to an interesting new study on fertility patterns in his article "Making more babies: a stimulus plan." Saunders explains for the curious the import of population increase generally and replacement-level fertility specifically.Here is where you start [...]
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    Posted: August 19, 2009, 7:15pm EDT

  • A new perspective on Eurabia

    The Vancouver Sun's columnist Douglas Todd produced an interesting column, "Do Muslims seek to dominate the West? And could they do it?", with an associated conversation at his blog. It mentions me by name, and perhaps unsurprisingly it also deals with Eurabia.It is a frightening vision of future Europe, the [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2009, 11:14am EDT

  • "How migration transformed Martha’s Vineyard"

    Readers may be interested in Daniela Gerson's excellent article in the Financial Times, "How migration transformed Martha's Vineyard". In it, Gerson descreibes how the tourist island of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts, acquired a permanent population of which 20% was of Brazilian background, in a classic example of [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 11:21am EDT

  • Quelques liens de la francophonie (1)

    English isn't the only language out there on the Internet. Other languages--French, for instance--are also present, and other languages--again, like French--feature news article and contents concerning demography, not only in France but throughout la francophonie. Here's a few of the more recent articles. If you can't read French, Google Translate [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 11:44am EDT

  • Some demographic news links

    I've stored up a few, so please forgive me. I promise not to let the links accumulate quite so much.The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reports debate on the extent to which Australia's rapidly growing population--possibly as high as 44 million by 2050!--will be driven by natural increase or immigration.At Inter Press' [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 11:26am EDT

  • More on fertility and the HDI

    James Holland Jones, a biodemographer at Stanford has posted a critique of Edward's critique of the recent paper by Kohler, Myrskylä and Billari et al. in Nature arguing that development beyond a certain level reverses the fertility decline usually associated with development. Jones' response is a good and fair one' [...]
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    Posted: August 11, 2009, 6:21am EDT

  • "Fertility in Israel: Is the Transition to Replacement Level In Sight?"

    Israel is a nation marked profoundly by planning, from the construction and adoption of Modern Hebrew as a common tongue then as a first language, from the design of agricultural communities and the designation of settlement patterns, to the construction of the basic institutions of state and civil society. That's' [...]
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    Posted: August 10, 2009, 11:28am EDT

  • "Advances in Development Reverse Fertility Declines" - Science or Hocus Pocus?

    According to a once-upon-a-time post on the Economist's Certain Ideas of Europe Blog Edward Hugh “was very cross” about some of the journalism they were serving up over at that prestigious journal. Well, not to worry, since this time he is hopping mad. And the issue which lies behind his [...]
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    Posted: August 09, 2009, 4:28am EDT

  • Weekend Demographic Link Dump

    A recent article in Nature has been given a lot of media attention because it argues that at high levels of development, as measured by the Human Development Index, there is a positive correlation between HDI and fertility. I'm personally not convinced and Edward does a good job of pointing' [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 9:29am EDT

  • The ticking population bomb

    The primary focus of this blog is on the rapid aging and low fertility in much of the world. Had this blog been written forty or even twenty years ago, it is likely that the focus would be completely different. Back then, people like Paul Ehrlich wrote books like the [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 6:00pm EDT

  • Christopher Dye on Human Evolution

    Following Aslak's link dump below, I thought that I would share the video below of a lecture given by Professor Christopher Dye from the World Health Organizatio on human evolution, what it is and where it is going. Especially relevant to the readers and contributors here is the discussion on [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 3:15pm EDT

  • Weekend Demographic Link Dump

    A recent survey by the Dutch statistics office indicated that Muslims constitute 5% of the population in the Netherlands, or 825 000 people. This is an absolute decline from 865 000 in 2006. This survey actually asks people what religion the belong to, instead of presuming that everyone with a [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 5:10am EDT

  • Matt Carr on Reflections on the Revolution in Europe

    I'd like to thank Crooked Timber's Chris Bertram for pointing to a detailed rebuttal of the latest Eurabian tome, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe. Matt Carr's "Christopher Caldwell Dissected"At first sight it may seem odd that a senior editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard and an admirer of Enoch' [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 12:26pm EDT

  • How many babies are Europeans actually having?

    Some time ago I talked about how total fertility rates can be misleading when the mother's average age at birth is changing and that much how the recent apparent small increases in fertility is due to the the stabilization of the average age at birth rather than Europeans actually having [...]
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    Posted: July 29, 2009, 2:46am EDT

  • On the aging of Shanghai's population

    The city of Shanghai is an exceptional metropolis, one of the largest cities in East Asia and since the 19th century a major commercial, financial, and cultural centre for most of that region. Shanghainese officials helped to guide China's initial opening to the world, and from the 1990s on Shanghai [...]
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    Posted: July 27, 2009, 11:28am EDT

  • Liberal economics and replacement-level fertility: Are they contradictory?

    I'd like to refer our readers to John C. Caldwell and Thomas Schindlmayr' 2003 paper "Explanations of the fertility crisis in modern society: A Search for Commonalities", originally published in Population Studies 27.3, pages 241-263. This paper is a detailed examination of the dynamics behind lowest-low fertility, examining historical trends, [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 5:15pm EDT

  • Demographic Link Dump - Asia Edition

    In Japan, at least some companies are moving towards facilitating parenthood. It is not clear how extensive the phenomenon is or how effective it will be, but it seems like a sensible step. Interestingly, the programs seem exclusively focused on women. Presumably, Japanese men will continue to be expected to [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 6:26am EDT

  • The Census Bureau on Global Aging

    Earlier this week, the US Census Bureau released a new report on global aging which nicely complements the post Claus put up earlier this week on the same subject. To regular followers of this blog, the contents should come as no surprise, but it does provide a good summary of [...]
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    Posted: July 24, 2009, 2:45am EDT

  • A link on the history of Algerian emigration

    Migration, as most of our readers know, has played a major role in Algerian history, creating a diaspora concentrated in France and intensifying economic ties to Europe even after independence was achieved in 1962. I've recently had the good fortune to come across a two-part French-language article, Nadia Agsous' "Aux" [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 11:44am EDT

  • Has the world reached replacement rate fertility?

    At first glance, the question might seem odd, given that the global fertility rate is currently estimated by the UN to be somewhere around 2.5, well above 2.1, which is usually cited as the replacement rate. However, 2.1 is a number that is often bandied about somewhat lazily, even by [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 6:53am EDT

  • Some notes on Brazilian migration trends

    A recent article by the Irish Times's Ruadhán Mac Cormaic, "American Dream, Brazilian Reality" takes a detailed look at many of the trends behind Brazilian emigration, starting with the city of Governador Valadores in the prosperous central Brazilian state of Minas Gerais.Governador Valadares doesn’t look like a city in the [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 10:51pm EDT

  • What's So Funny About Japan?

    by Claus Vistesen and Edward HughThe following article appeared in the June 2009 issue of Japan Inc.Japan’s economy just does not seem to be able to catch a break at the moment. GDP contracted at an annual pace of over 15.2 percent in the first three months of this year, [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 4:59am EDT

  • Why Japan Isn't Rising

    Due to the importance of the issues raised, and the similarities of the viewpoints expressed with those of this blog, we are happy to take the exceptional step of publishing this article from Daniel Gross. The article originally appeared in Slate on 18 July 2009, and a modified version also [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 4:20pm EDT

  • Global Population Ageing - What Do We Know?

    Update 1: I have added a comment below by Warren Sanderson who is one of the co-authors of the paper discussed below. It was first posted over on my personal blog where this entry has been up for a couple of days.Update 2: Just to remind our readers (if they [...]
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    Posted: July 19, 2009, 5:00am EDT

  • Institutional Adaptations to Migrants and Transnationalism

    I'd like to point our readers towards David Fitzgerald's recent Migration Information article "Uncovering the Emigration Policies of the Catholic Church in Mexico". As the article's title suggests, Fitzgerald reviews how the Catholic Church in Mexico tried first to prevent emigration, then to help emigrants preserve their culture in ways' [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 1:20pm EDT

  • The decadent shall inherit the Earth

    The concern about excessive aging in developed countries is obviously not limited to this blog but also extends to the governments in question. Among other things, this has lead the OECD to establish the OECD Family database, which is a nice collection of data about things like fertility, public spending [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 3:36am EDT

  • Demographic Link Dump

    -In a truly fascinating article from last fall, Mara Hvistendahl looks at the causes and consequences of China's gender imbalance. The gender imbalance in Asia in general and China in particular will be one of the most important social phenomena in this century and this article does a great job [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 4:17am EDT

  • Greenland: Dubai on the Arctic or slow decline?

    Earlier this year, Greenland celebrated an expansion of home-rule, which was widely seen as an important step towards possible independence. For Greenlandic nationalists, the main goal has long been to end centuries of Danish rule, even though as colonial masters go, the Danes have been about as benevolent as they [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 5:07am EDT

  • More on Cuban population futures

    Cuba's population aging, which I blogged about back in August 2006, is starting to gain more press attention.This country reached a tipping point in 2006. It wasn’t any one event in particular, but according to Cuba’s Office of National Statistics, the island’s population of 11.2 million stopped growing that year, [...]
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    Posted: July 07, 2009, 11:59pm EDT

  • A brief look at Iranian demographics

    Iran's demographic structure is characterized by the huge baby boom of the 1970s and 1980s. The Iranian population more than doubled in recent years, rising from 33 million in 1976 to some 70 million in 2006, with a very high proportion of young people produced by the baby boom of [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 7:55pm EDT

  • Germany's Shrinking East

    Here at Demography.Matters and elsewhere, we are talking a lot about the economic effect of demographic changes. However, demographic changes not only entail economic changes, but also social changes and quite often these two go hand in hand (as Randy and Aslak have excellently expositioned lately). A recent piece by [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 12:31pm EDT

  • On rural Canada's evolution

    Today on Canada Day, Canada's national holiday, the CTV television network's Andrea Janus produced an article with an overly lurid title, "Will immigration, aging kill Small Town, Canada?". In the past couple of decades, the make-up of the Canadian population has changed very considerably.Canada has long been celebrated as a [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 11:17pm EDT

  • Two Foreign Policy Links

    The always-interesting magazine Foreign Policy features two articles of note to our readers.Reihan Salam's "The Death of Macho" examines the consequences of how the Great Recession is accelerating a power shift from men away from women in societies around the world, as the old industrial economies which drew on male [...]
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    Posted: June 30, 2009, 7:00pm EDT

  • Climate refugees and West African migration

    Sam Knight's recent article in the Financial Times, "Ghana's environmental refugees," writes about the new phenomenon of the climate refugee, starting by visiting the dessicating Ghanaian city of Nandom.The heart of Nandom is a fork in the road. It is here, in one of the northernmost towns in Ghana, that [...]
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    Posted: June 26, 2009, 8:02pm EDT

  • Germany's Shrinking East

    By Claus Vistesen: CopenhagenHere at DM and elsewhere, we are harping a lot about the economic effect of demographic changes. However, demographic changes not only entail economic changes, but also social changes (as I have doubt Randy has reminded you all as of late) and quite often these two go [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 2:51pm EDT

  • What are the distant islands of the EU like?

    I'd like to point people towards the French-language PDF, coming from INED's ongoing Population et Sociétes series, "Population et développement de l'Outremer de l Union européene". As I blogged recently about Tonga and the South Pacific, in March of this year on the French Caribbean islands, and in December 2007 [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 7:44pm EDT

  • Who are Roma and travelers? How many are there in Europe?

    Antonio Cappiello (ICstat - International Cooperation Center for Statistics "Luigi Bodio" ) this post originally appeared (in Italian language) on Neodemos.it The knowledge of ROMA and travelers' culture and the quantification and localization of their presence it is of fundamental importance for planning social policies for the protection of minorities,' [...]
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    Posted: June 19, 2009, 3:08pm EDT

  • A Good/Bad Time To Stop Having Babies

    Guest post by Doug MuirThis post originally appeared on A Fistful Of Euros In March.Here follows a bit of demographic speculation. It’s guesswork right now, but we’ll know in a year or two if I’m right.Interesting Fact #1: birthrates tend to drop during recessions, and the drop tends to correlate [...]
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    Posted: June 17, 2009, 7:10am EDT

  • The Clock Is Ticking Away Under Latvia

    As the European Commision and the IMF conduct their latest post-Keynesian "social and economic experiment" in Latvia to see whether it is possible to revive an economy which is contracting at an annual rate of 18% under the weight of debt deflation relying almost exclusively on a process of drastic [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 5:14am EDT

  • Demographic warfare and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

    Guest Post by Aslak BergWith the Obama administration making a renewed effort to bring about peace in the Middle East, I thought it would be appropriate to discuss the conflict on this blog since the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, more than any other conflict today, revolves around demography. Demography has been at [...]
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    Posted: June 12, 2009, 6:42am EDT

  • Go read "The World's New Numbers"

    I'd like to point people to the latest article of The Wilson Quarterly, which includes Martin Walker's article "The World's New Numbers,", as sober an analysis as any of global population trends and their implications. Walker's article is quite busy. After debunking the Eurabia thesis--"European" fertility rates are higher than' [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 7:03pm EDT

  • On Tonga and the Pacific islanders

    Hello again!Recently, I came across the Radio Australia report "Reassigned Tonga guest workers upset local balance". The article describes how Tonga guest-workers, while economically productive and satisfied with their own earnings, are unpopular among native-born residents of the region where they're working.ADAMS: With harvest over, they begin pruning the almond' [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2009, 6:52pm EDT

  • Is European Fertility Rebounding?

    Guest Post by Aslak Berg In the last decade or so, news coverage of European demography has been distinctly gloomy. Ranging from dire predictions about the rise of Eurabia to perhaps more reasonable economic concerns expressed on this blog and elsewhere about the increasing cost of aging and shrinking populations. [...]
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    Posted: May 25, 2009, 12:09pm EDT

  • A Short Message To Our Readers

    Hello there, if there are many of you still left out there that is. I would like to take this opportunity to offer a short apology for the semi-suspension of service that has characterised this blog for the last year or so.Basically, just in case you hadn't noticed, we have' [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 8:15am EDT

  • Taking Solow Seriously - Does Neoclassical Steady State Growth Really Exist?

    Discussions of the population problem have always had the capacity to stir up public sentiment much more than most other problems....In fact, the discussion of the population problem seems at all times and in all places to be more strongly dominated by the volitional elements of political ideals and interests [...]
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    Posted: May 24, 2009, 8:13am EDT

  • Standford Conference: Ageing in Asia

    This certainly looks interesting. I am talking about a recently held conference sponsored, in part, by the Stanford center of Longevity about ageing in Asia, its implications, manifestations and consequences. The list of panelists is impressive and includes the likes of David Bloom from Harvard and Andrew Mason from Hawaii [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2009, 4:40pm EDT

  • Fearing the Flu?

    By Claus Vistesen: CopenhagenThere certainly has been a lot of commotion surrounding the emergence and rapid spread of the recent new strain of flu known as H1N1 (or Swine Flu). The way I see we can only hope that this particular flu does not get too much out of hand [...]
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    Posted: May 01, 2009, 7:45am EDT

  • On the French Antillean situation

    The 2009 general strikes in the French Antillean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe have deservedly gotten quite a lot of attention. Even though the immediate crisis has been resolved, they still brought into the open major issues like the huge economic disparities between the French Antilles and metropolitan France and [...]
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    Posted: March 20, 2009, 7:21pm EDT

  • Canada will soon be as united as the European Union ...

    ... at least in one respect. It's a little-known fact that Canada is still in the process of creating an integrated national labour market.Premiers put the finishing touches today on amendments to a 15-year interprovincial trade agreement they say will guarantee full labour mobility across the country – but experts' [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2009, 8:43pm EST

  • Going west no more

    For my first post here this year, I'd like to bring up a recent article in The Globe and Mail by Gordon Pitts ("The Waning of the Boom", available here). In this article, Pitts explores how the the sharp fall in oil prices is likely to impact the wider Canadian [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2009, 11:31am EST

  • Eurostat on European populations in 2060

    I wanted to call attention to the recent results of Eurostat's metadata projection of the projected population changes of the European Union's twenty-seven member-states as well as Norway and Switzerland between now and 2060. (My thanks go to the The Financial Times's Tony Barber's post.) The Eurostat report Ageing characterises [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 8:41pm EDT

  • "Murderous identities and population paranoia"

    Over at Himal South Asian, Mohan Rao's article "Murderous identities and population paranoia" explores the uses and misuses of popular demography in the wider world and particularly in India, host to a very large and diverse population. Indian Muslims, a population marked by period fertility rates higher than the average [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 1:23pm EDT

  • Economic Growth and the Demographic Dividend in Chile

    By Claus VistesenThere are many perspectives through which to look at economic development and growth. Geography, institutions or perhaps just plain good old physical capital accumulation are all important parameters. This small piece suggests a further metric and attempts to frame the argument with Chile as a case study.Specfifically, this [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2008, 2:24am EDT

  • The Georgian mess

    The ongoing war in Georgia, being an ethnic conflict that, most unlike the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s--featured great-power military intervention right from the start, and as a result has attracted a very large amount of international attention from the word go. Google News Canada returns in excess of 39 [...]
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    Posted: August 18, 2008, 10:26pm EDT
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